Published by Collector's Library, 2007
ISBN 10: 1904919758 ISBN 13: 9781904919759
Seller: Seagull Books, Hove, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sir Edward Burne-Jones (illustrator). Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK.
Published by Collector's Library, 2007
ISBN 10: 1904919758 ISBN 13: 9781904919759
Seller: Dartmouth Books, West Molesey, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Sir Edward Burne-Jones (illustrator). This large scale format illustrated hardback was published by Collector's Library in the USA circa 2007. It is the only copy this bookshop has ever seen and as it is still in the publisher's undisturbed shrink-wrapping, we prefer not to open it merely to find out the usual detailed bibliographic information. The attraction of this book is visual: the illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones are apparently very beautiful. The condition of the book is 'New' and unopened. The size of the book in inches is 11.11 x 9.5 with a depth of 1.7. and it weighs 2.10 kg. As with all our sales of books within the UK, we only ever charge a flat standard delivery cost of £3.35. Overseas buyers will be asked to agree to pay extra additional delivery costs as the book weighs over 1 kg.
Published by Collector's Library, 2007
ISBN 10: 1904919758 ISBN 13: 9781904919759
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Sir Edward Burne-Jones (illustrator).
Published by Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1896
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
FROM A COPY OF AN EDITION OF 425. 425 x 289 mm. (16 3/4 x 11 3/8"). pp. 439-42. Untrimmed, unsewn leaves that were never permanently bound, attractively matted. WITH WOODCUT INITIAL AND BORDERS DESIGNED BY WILLIAM MORRIS, THE WOOD-ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES. âIN VERY FINE CONDITION, with only trivial imperfections. This beautiful publisher's work of art comes from the Kelmscott Chaucer, one of the great achievements in the history of printing. It comes from an incomplete copy that was apparently put to (gentle) use in the Press workshop, and that was purchased at auction having been laid into the publisher's boards but never having been bound (there are stab holes on some leaves, as here, but nothing was ever glued). William Morris had fallen in love with Chaucer's works when he and Burne-Jones were students at Oxford, and with the founding of the Kelmscott Press in 1891, Morris began plans, first announced to the public in 1892, for the Chaucer. Praise for this work--compared as a printing masterpiece to the Gutenberg Bible and Caxton's first printing of Chaucer in 1478--has never stopped coming. "Artist & the Book" says that it is "perhaps the most famous book of the modern private press movement, and the culmination of William Morris' endeavor." Ray says that the book "is not only the most important of the Kelmscott Press' productions; it is also one of the great books of the world." Yeats called the Kelmscott Chaucer "the most beautiful of all printed books." Copies in the regular publisher's boards now sell for upwards of $100,000 (and for much more in special bindings). Being a book commanding treatment as a precious object, the Kelmscott Chaucer is almost never found incomplete, and because taking apart a complete copy would constitute wanton destruction of a major cultural artifact, leaves like this--especially a bifolium (not to mention a continuous bifolium)--are quite uncommon in the marketplace.