[Two trial pages of the projected edition of Lord Berners' translation of Froissart.] (oversize, folio)
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Type of record: Book
Title: [Two trial pages of the projected edition of Lord Berners' translation of Froissart.] (oversize, folio)
Classmark: BC Fine Print 2/KEL
Creator(s): Morris, William (1834-1896)
Additional creator(s): Froissart, Jean (1338?-1410?) (Other); Morris, William (1834-1896) (Illustrator); Berners, John Bourchier Baron (1533) (Translator); Brotherton, Sir Edward Allen (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Morris, William, 1834-1896; Morris, William, 1834-1896
Publisher: Kelmscott Press
Publication city: [Hammersmith]
Date(s): [1897]
Language: English
Size and medium: bifolium, 4 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/750181
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020102396305181
Description
Printed on the first recto: These two trial pages of the projected edition of Lord Berners' translation of Froissart were printed at the Kelmscott Press in September, 1897, to preserve the designs made for the work by William Morris. In the border are the arms of France, the Empire, and England; on the second page are those of Reginald Lord Cobham, Sir Walter Manny, and Sir John Chandos.
Printed on vellum. Chaucer and Troy type, printed in red and black, wood-engraved borders.
Limited to 160 copies printed on vellum at 1 guinea; there were none on paper. It was planned as a 2-volume folio companion to the Kelmscott Chaucer. Only 16 of the pages were ever printed, these before William Morris's death in 1896. Two pages were finished by C.E. Keates, printed by Stephen Mowlem, after Morris's death [i.e. in 1897].
Indexed in: Peterson, W.S. A bibliography of The Kelmscott Press,
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Brotherton Collection F PR 2/KEL: unbound, contemporary [late 19th/early 20th century] half vellum, grey linen boards portfolio, gold tooled on front cover: Froissart's Chronicles Specimen Pages on Vellum Kelmscott Press.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Brotherton Collection F PR 2/KEL: armorial bookplate on inside front of portfolio: Ex Libris Sir Edward Allen Brotherton, D.L., LL. D., of Roundhay Hall, Leeds, and of Kirkham Abbey, in the County of York, Baronet [known as between 1918-1929]. Number 40 in pencil on inside front of portfolio.
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