THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Designer, social reformer, and writer William Morris (1834 96) was a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and a towering figure of Victorian artistic and cultural history. Inspired by the hand presses of the fifteenth century, Morris established the Kelmscott Press to publish books of his own design and to revive the quality achieved by the pioneers of printing. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer represents Morris's most ambitious undertaking as a printer and designer as well as his swansong, the four-year undertaking was completed jus...[Llegir més]