1982 William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. Illustrated with eighty black-and-white figures. The Kelmscott Chaucer is widely held to be one of the most magnificent printed books ever produced, being the last and greatest collaboration of Morris and Burne-Jones who had worked together for forty years. This volume traces the development of ideas for the illustrations from conception to production. Written by David Duncan Robinson, a British art historian and academic who was the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and later the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.