The Kelmscott Chaucer

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Book ornamentation
ISBN : 1907360514

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The Kelmscott Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

The Kelmscott Chaucer is the most memorable and beautiful edition of the complete works of the first great English poet. Next to The Gutenberg Bible, it is considered the outstanding typographic achievement of all time. There are 87 full-page illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and the borders, decorations and initials are drawn byWilliam Morris himself. Only 425 copies of this magnificent work were produced in 1896, and this beautiful monochrome facsimile, slightly smaller than the original, makes this glorious book available to all. A fascinating Introduction by Nicholas Barker places the book and its importance in context. The main text is followed by a black and white facsimile of ANoteby William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, together with a Short History of the Press by S C Cockerell.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Crw Publishing
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, Medieval
ISBN : 1904919758

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The Kelmscott Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

The Kelmscott Chaucer is the most memorable and beautiful edition of the complete works of the first great English poet. Next to The Gutenberg Bible, it is considered the outstanding typographic achievement of all time. The Golden typeface used for the Kelmscott Chaucer was especially designed for the book, with its consistent thick and thin strokes, and with a view to blending as a harmonious.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0764979450

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The Kelmscott Chaucer by Anonim Pdf

Widely regarded as one of the most exquisite books ever printed, the Kelmscott Chaucer is the masterwork of William Morris (1834-1896) and Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898). Published in 1896, more than thirty years after the two Englishmen discovered a shared love of art and medieval literature while students at Oxford University, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted represents the peak of their artistic collaboration. Morris was a man of many passions: an artist, designer, poet, publisher, businessman, and social activist, as well as being a founder of the Arts & Crafts movement in England. After establishing the Kelmscott Press in 1891, he turned to his friend Burne-Jones, a painter then in great demand, to help him create an ideal book, one patterned after the artistry and typography of medieval illuminated manuscripts and the best of fifteenth-century handprinting. In its 556 pages, the Kelmscott Chaucer included 87 elegant narrative illustrations by Burne-Jones and 32 of Morris's lush floral and foliate border designs, along with his decorative frames and initials. It was printed to exacting specifications in black and red using the (appropriately named) Chaucer typeface Morris designed for it. The great book took four years to make. "If we live to finish it," wrote Burne-Jones, "it will be like a pocket cathedral-so full of design and I think Morris the greatest master of ornament in the world." The first two of the 438 books printed were presented to Morris and Burne-Jones in June 1896. Morris, who had been in declining health for several years, died four months later. Burne-Jones would survive him by less than two years. This colouring book's images are from a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer in the collection of The British Library, which houses more than 150 million items representing every age of written civilization.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781446546833

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Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

This book contains the introduction, glossary and indexes for the complete works of the well-known English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, considered one of the world's foremost and influential poets of all time. A lovely read for all the family, this collection deserves a place on the bookshelf of every home.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520345225

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The Ideal Book by William Morris Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015031696274

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William Morris: Ornamentation and illustrations from the Kelmscott Chaucer by William Morris Pdf

100 pages of beautiful copyright-free tailpieces, decorative letters, elaborate floral borders and frames, samples of body type, and all 98 delicate woodcut illustrations. A magnificent capsulation of fine printing beauty for browsing or for use by commercial artists.

Author : Duncan Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UVA:X001456093

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William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson Pdf

"The Kelmscott Chaucer is widely held to be one of the most magnificent printed books ever produced. For forty years Morris and Burne-Jones had worked together on a variety of projects: this was their last and greatest venture. The book describes the growth of the monumental Chaucer from a more modest concept through its many production problems to its final form on publication in 1896. The author also traces the development of the ideas for the illustrations which were suggested by the text and modified by practical concern for page layout and reproduction quality. There are a number of illustrations of designs which Burne-Jones made but never used. The final drawings from which ink interpretations were made and the woodblocks engraved are reproduced to facsimile standards. There are a number of reproductions of the engravings themselves, and several of the full decorated pages are shown."--book jacket.

Author : Phillip J. Pirages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Book design
ISBN : OCLC:1111630989

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Letters from the 15th Century by Phillip J. Pirages Pdf

Author : John M. Bowers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198842675

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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by John M. Bowers Pdf

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160 pages of commentary reveals much of his thinking about language and storytelling when he was still at the threshold of his career as an epoch-making writer of fantasy literature. Drawing upon other new materials such as his edition of the Reeve's Tale and his Oxford lectures on the Pardoner's Tale, this book reveals Chaucer as a major influence upon Tolkien's literary imagination.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020568325

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Story of the Glittering Plain by William Morris Pdf

Author : William S. Peterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520061381

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The Kelmscott Press by William S. Peterson Pdf

From a quantitative point of view the achievement of the Kelmscott Press may not seem impressive: between 1891 and 1898 it produced fifty-two books and a set of specimen pages for another book. Yet each was remarkably beautiful. Designed by William Morris, printed on hand-presses, ornamented with initials and borders by Morris, and illustrated often by Edward Burne-Jones, these few Kelmscott Press books are famous everywhere today. Why they have so profoundly affected twentieth-century theories of book design and what cultural significance the founding of the Kelmscott Press played are some of the questions the author considers.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Boston : Roberts Brothers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015065980933

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Poems by the Way by William Morris Pdf

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726507706

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Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf Pdf

"Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees... one's happiness, one's reality?" A family of four is walking around Kew Gardens in London, lost in their thoughts. The husband thinks of the girl who turned down his marriage proposal in this very garden many years ago. When asking his wife if it upsets her that he's thinking about this other woman, she reasons that one's past is like ghosts lying under the trees. Only Virginia Woolf can write a short story about completely ordinary things and people and make you long for more. With exquisite prose, she invites you along as she examines the beauty of normal summer's day. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927).

Author : J. W. Mackail
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486143910

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The Life of William Morris by J. W. Mackail Pdf

DIVClassic biography of great Victorian poet, designer, socialist. Childhood, education, socialism, Arts and Crafts movement, Kelmscott Press, much more. 22 black-and-white illus. /div

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Printing
ISBN : OCLC:213749617

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A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press by William Morris Pdf