The William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer, Edward Burne-Jones, Omega Books Ltd, 1985, Near Fine hardcover w/DJ.

Burne-Jones, Edward. Hertfordshire: Omega Books Ltd., 1985. 

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 12” x 8 ½”, 554 pp. 

ISBN: 1850070822  

Hardcover in navy blue cloth. Light sunning to top edge, minor toning, light soiling to fore-edges, and faint thumbprints to title page. Good black pictorial dust jacket, tears to head, tail, and top front tip, some edgewear, minor shelf wear, now in Mylar. 554 pp. Includes reproductions of the 87 original illustrations by English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer, Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Beautifully produced facsimile of the 1896 edition of English textile designer, poet, Arts & Crafts movement founding artist, writer, and socialist activist, William Morris' re-vitalization of the medieval The Canterbury Tales, An A.B.C. of Geoffrey Chaucer, and much more in a highly decorative style and typeface called Chaucer.