Title

The Kelmscott Chaucer - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted, 1896. Creator: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones.

Caption

The Kelmscott Chaucer - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted, 1896. Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris shared a love of medieval books and poetry. They collaborated on "The Kelmscott Chaucer", a volume containing the writings of English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), and considered by many as the most beautiful book ever printed. Illustrator: Sir Edward Burne-Jones; Assistant: Douglas Cockerell; Publisher: Kelmscott Press; Designer: William Morris; Book binder: TJ Cobden-Sanderson; Assistant: R Catterson-Smith; Photographer: Sir Emery Walker. 87 woodcut illustrations on paper.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A51_175

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

34,4Mo (3,0Mo) / 33,9cm x 25,4cm / 3999 x 3005 (300dpi)

Keywords

arts art book British museum design decoration decorative text century gallery Britain print floral literature decorated B&W lettering flowered MONOCHROME illustrated art gallery typeface arts and crafts 19th century graphic design poetry black & white black and white B W nineteenth century woodcut artistic school Arts and Crafts Movement Canterbury Tales Kelmscott Press Pre-Raphaelite The Canterbury Tales illustration Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery object woodcut English literature Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer William William Morris Morris Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Burne-Jones Douglas T Cockerell artistic style Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones Edward Coley Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art centre Edward Coley Burne-Jones Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Birmingham Museums Trust Arts & Crafts Movement Geoffrey Burne-Jones Edward Heritage Art 19th-century Douglas Cockerell Edward Coley Burne Jones The Kelmscott Chaucer Douglas Bennett Douglas Bennett Cockerell Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson Cobden-Sanderson T. J. T. J. Cobden-Sanderson