Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
[The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]
1 of 4
- Description
- Side notes and headings in red. "Besides Burne-Jones's eighty-seven pictures, it contains a full-page woodcut title, fourteen large borders, eighteen borders or frames for the pictures, and twenty-six large initial words. All of these, besides the ornamental initial letters large and small, were designed by Morris himself."--The life of William Morris by J. W. Mackail, v. 2 "The hearty thanks of the editor and printer are due to the Reverend Professor Skeat for kindly allowing the use of his emendations to the Ellesmere ms. of the Canterbury tales, and also of his emended texts of Chaucer's other writings." Printed on vellum. Probably a trial page.
- Date
- [1896]
- Call number
- 110171
- Dimensions
- (folio)
- Associated people
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, (1833-1898.)
- Ellis, Frederick Startridge, (1830-1901.)
- Morris, William, (1834-1896.)
- Skeat, Walter W. (1835-1912.)
