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Kelmscott Press

UBC Library digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and launches digital colouring book series

UBC Library digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and launches digital colouring book series

By Anna Moorhouse on May 17, 2018

When UBC Library acquired the Kelmscott Press’ Works of Geoffrey Chaucer in 2016, the book’s preservation story was just beginning.

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UBC purchases “the most beautiful of all printed books”

UBC purchases “the most beautiful of all printed books”

By Clare Yow on December 1, 2016

The Fall 2016 issue of Trek looks at the Library’s purchase of the Kelmscott Chaucer.

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Melody Burton, Head Librarian, Katherine Kalsbeek ,Head of Rare Books and Special Collections and Dr. Gregory Mackie, assistant professor in UBC’s department of English.

UBC Library acquires a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer

By michelle blackwell on August 23, 2016

UBC Library has acquired a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, one of the world’s most extraordinary books. Printed in a limited edition of only 438 copies, the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published by William Morris’s Kelmscott Press in 1896.

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