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William Morris And The Kelmscott Chaucer: Design, Production, And Conservation Analysis, Gretchen Allen
William Morris And The Kelmscott Chaucer: Design, Production, And Conservation Analysis, Gretchen Allen
Scripps Senior Theses
William Morris’s Kelmscott Press was founded specifically for the purpose of producing handmade printed works in a rapidly industrializing age. The techniques he and his confederates employed to make the Kelmscott books resulted in beautiful publications with remarkable material fortitude, as exemplified in the Press’s masterwork, “The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted”. This thesis examines the condition of the copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer in the Scripps rare book collection from a book conservator’s perspective to analyze the connection between William Morris’s personal philosophies, his resulting artistic decisions, and the longevity of the book as an art object.