The Works Now Newly Imprinted
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1891788191 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 298 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Library Journal We didn't think it possible, but Octavo has surpassed its previous excellent efforts once again. Octavo publicity for the disc begins, "The Kelmscott Chaucer is the greatest and most influential book never to have been read," and explains this is because of the book's original expense and the overwhelming quality of the volume's magnificence, displaying Chaucer's text amidst Morris's designs and Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations. The volume may be slightly less overwhelming in this format (since examining it in detail takes a little time), bu
Still more important is the respect due to a great book, and if all the Kelmscott Chaucers, scattered about the world, have a purpose today it is to encourage such respect. To him, the creation of a book in which text, decoration, and illustration were a single whole, none of whose parts could be separated from each other, was a tribute to the text, the greatest tribute that could be paid to it. Worldly wisdom may require most of them to be preserved from the hands that Morris would have wished to turn their pages; that they can now do so in electronic form is surely a fate that he would have applauded. Secondly, the book was originally expensive and is now even more so; those who turn its pages do so with care lest they mar its clean white pages or strain its elegant binding. The eye, invited to admire so much visual magnificence, is absorbed by it and strays away for the actual text. The Kelmscott Chaucer is th
This is a magnificent reproduction of the William Morris masterpiece This is a magnificent reproduction of the William Morris masterpiece. This is the most economical way to own this high state of book art.