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The Kelmscott Chaucer - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted, 1896. Creator: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones.

The Kelmscott Chaucer - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted, 1896. Creator: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones.

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The Kelmscott Chaucer - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted, 1896. Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris shared a love of medieval books and poetry. They collaborated on "The Kelmscott Chaucer", a volume containing the writings of English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), and considered by many as the most beautiful book ever printed. Illustrator: Sir Edward Burne-Jones; Assistant: Douglas Cockerell; Publisher: Kelmscott Press; Designer: William Morris; Book binder: TJ Cobden-Sanderson; Assistant: R Catterson-Smith; Photographer: Sir Emery Walker. 87 woodcut illustrations on paper.

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Creator
  1. Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, attributed to: British; English: Artist, painter
Subject
  1. Geoffrey Chaucer: English, British: Author, poet
People Related
  1. Geoffrey Chaucer: English, British: Author, poet
  2. William Morris: British: Poet, artist, designer, author, craftsman, political theorist
  3. Douglas Cockerell: British: Bookbinder, author
  4. Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson: British: Bookbinder, calligrapher, printer, writer
  5. Robert Catterson-Smith: British: Artist
  6. Emery Walker: British: Photographer, typographer, process-engraver, printer, publisher, photo-engraver
  7. William Harcourt Hooper: British: Artist, wood engraver and printmaker
Picture Type
  1. Object
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Society & Culture Art & Literature

History & Politics Artefacts

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4000x2930
File Size : 34,336kb

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  1. 3499
  1. 1934P675
  1. 0970001617
  1. 3-029-504
  1. 3029504
  1. 3499

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