The works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Subtitle: now newly imprinted
By: [edited by F.S. Ellis ; ornamented with pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by W.H. Hooper].
Contributors: Ellis, Frederick Startridge, 1830-1901.; Morris, William, 1834-1896.; Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir, 1833-1898.; Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912.; Skeat, Walter W. 1835-1912.; Kelmscott Press.
Publisher: William Morris at the Kelmscott Press
Published: 1896
Place of publication: [Hammersmith, Middlesex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 554
Other titles: works of Geoffrey Chaucer; Kelmscott Chaucer
Work titles: Works.
Notes: Signatures: a4 b-mm8 n4 pi

"The hearty thanks of the editor and printer are due to the Reverend Professor Skeat for kindly allowing the use of his emendations to the Ellesmere MS. of the Canterbury tales, and also of his emended texts of Chaucer's other writings"--Colophon.

Limited ed. of 425 copies on paper; 13 copies on vellum.

Engraved, decorated t.p.

Side notes and headings in red.

"Besides Burne-Jones' eighty-seven pictures, [the work] contains a full-page woodcut title, fourteen large borders, eighteen borders or frames for the pictures, and twenty-six large initial words. All of these, besides the ornamental initial letters large and small, were designed by Morris himself"--The life of William Morris, by J.W. Mackail, v. 2, p. 326.

Library has 2 copies of the ordinary ed. in quarter linen (not cased) with printed spine label; blue-gray paper over boards. Copy 2, housed in a green morocco solander case, bequest of Marjorie G. Stern; it was initially the personal copy of Edward Burne-Jones, signed on prelim. leaf, and has the bookplate of Robert J. Hamershlag and a leather ex libris of Morgan A. Gunst (Ms. Stern's father).