Geoffrey Chaucer, Kelmscott Press Edition

A work described as perfect. .. both in design and in the quality of the last and the most magnificent, the Kelmscott Chaucer (Printing and the Mind of Man, p. 223). The most ambitious and magnificent book of the Press, the Kelmscott Chaucer was four years in the making. Morris designed the watermark for the paper, which was copied from an Italian incunable in Morris s collection and made entirely of linen by Batchelor. It took several requests before Clarendon Press granted permission to us