William Morris and the Kelmscott Press with Moira Duncan

The title pages of "The works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted", published by Kelmscott Press in 1896 in an edition of 425 copies. These pages were designed by William Morris. This copy is owned by the California State Library. Photo by Jim Heaphy.

Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 11 a.m. EDT (Ottawa time)

The Institute of Conservation‘s Icon Book & Paper Group Committee are pleased to be able to bring you a series of live streamed talks during these unprecedented times.

On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 4 p.m. BST (London time), 11 a.m. EDT (Ottawa time), Moira Duncan, Doctoral Student in Early Modern Literature, University of Ottawa, will be discussing William Morris’s interest in illuminated manuscripts and medieval print culture through an examination of Morris’s Kelmscott Press and the Kelmscott Chaucer. Register to attend this free virtual event.

This is the talk that Moira Duncan was scheduled to present at the cancelled CBBAG Ottawa April meeting.

Photo by Jim Heaphy. Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)