Accession number
PML 55555
Creator
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Published
Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 8 May 1896.
Credit line
Gift of Alexander P. Morgan, Alfred W. Gardner, Mrs. Hamilton Gregg, and Mrs. Lindley W. Tiers, 1965.
Notes
T.p. and 1st text page within woodcut borders; ornamental initials and marginal decorations; sidenotes in red.
"...edited by F.S. Ellis; ...pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones" -- colophon.
"...edited by F.S. Ellis; ...pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones" -- colophon.
Description
ii, [2], 554 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 44 cm
Provenance
From the collection of Junius S. Morgan (for whom the binding is thought to have been executed); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Alexander P. Morgan, Alfred W. Gardner, Mrs. Hamilton Gregg, and Mrs. Lindley W. Tiers (the heirs of Junius Morgan, his son and the children of his deceased daughter, Sarah Gardner), 1965.
Binding
Full white pigskin over boards, blindtooled; signed "The Doves Bindery 1898", design by Douglas Cockerell. In black quarter morocco box, red buckram boards.
Classification
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