The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

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Condition: Boards have minimal warping possibly due to moisture. Binding is secure, some hinge cracking; also shelf cocked. Pages are clean with the exception of original owners name inside front cover. Some foxing on page edges and some staining on page edges. Dust jacket has some edge chipping and tears/staining. Description: Attractive facsimile reprint of Morris's masterwork, slightly reduced in size, with a new introduction by John T. Winterich and "a glossary for the modern reader". Size:9¼" by 13" This edition, scarce complete in original dust jacket, is preceded with a valuable Introduction by John T. Winterich: "Geoffrey Chaucer's is the earliest voice in English poetry that still sounds a clear and universal note." Winterich links Geoffrey Chaucer and William Morris across the span of English history: "Today, endowed with the infallibility of hindsight, we can see how inevitable it was that these two great Englishmen, Geoffrey Chaucer and William Morris, living half a millennium apart, must one day meet on common ground, and that the later of them would build a great and durable monument to the earlier." Winterich describes the great influence of William Morris and his press ("the most important private press in the history of printing") and the virtues of this edition: "The Kelmscott Chaucer has been described as a book for the lectern rather than the lap. The present edition, in which the the page size has been slightly reduced, may legitimately be described as the first Kelmscott Chaucer ever published that is designed for reading.". N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1705793001626

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