Accession number
PML 76924.11
Creator
Keates, Charles, engraver.
Published
[Hammersmith, London] : [Kelmscott Press] [1895].
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
Library owns William Morris's original drawing after which this wood engraved initial was cut (see PML 76924.6).
Description
1 print : wood engraving, sheet: 173 x 229 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed and dated in pencil at lower right: Keates. 5 December 1895.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr.
Summary
Proof of a wood engraving after a design by William Morris of a large decorated initial word "Glory", the letters set in a vine background, created for the Kelmscott Press edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer where it appears on pages 112, 134, 160, and 445.
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