![]() “ The edition I have used for this project is a facsimile from the 1950s that has sat on my shelf for many years,” Goodman notes. You can view all these elements and more, digitized in detail and entirely downloadable, on Goodman’s site, organized into separate sections dedicated to its illustrations, full pages, borders, frames, and even its decorated words - the likes of which we seldom, if ever, see in the printed books of our own, infinitely higher-tech century. The illustrations were engraved by William Harcourt Hooper and printed in black, with shoulder and side titles.” ![]() ![]() Its 87 wood-cut illustrations are by Edward Burne-Jones, the celebrated Victorian painter, who was a life-long friend of Morris. Published in 1896, the Kelmscott Chaucer, fully titled The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted, “is the triumph of the press.
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