Proof illustration from the Kelmscott Chaucer.

Single woodcut after a design by Edward Burne-Jones, printed in black and white. Image size 20 x 16cm, mounted on grey cardboard. Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press.

Very good, the image bright and unfaded, some light spotting. The cardboard mount is undated, but there is no reason not to believe it to be roughly contemporary.  

A single proof print of one of the 87 woodcut illustrations that Edward Burne-Jones created for the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's works, this illustrating p.446, a part of the The Legend of Goode Wimmen:

‘And out he caughte a knyf, as rasour kene; hyd this, quod he, that hit be nat ysene; and, when thyn husbond is to bedde ygo, whyl that he slepeth, cut his throte atwo’ 

Stock Code: 240791