id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16212 Ryan, Michael William S. Peterson and Sylvia Holton Peterson. The Kelmscott Chaucer: A Census. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2011. 272p. alk. paper, $95.00 (ISBN 9781584562894). LC2011-003557. 2012-01-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1388 70 69 In the 1980s, copies of the KC began moving to Japan in such quantities that Japan now ranks third on the sweeps list after the United States and the United Kingdom. So, let me give you a few from the author’s own summary of the various fortunes of copies of the KC: W. B. Yeats … kept his “Chaucer” on a painted lectern between two candlesticks …Howard Storrs, a Florida newspaper editor/publisher, left his copy on the floor next to a Linotype machine for an entire year until he had fully paid for it …One famous collector of the “Chaucer” was married to an exotic dancer …A copy in Australia was allegedly bartered for several weeks’ lodging …And a copy at Yale was said to have been used as a doorstop…. cache/crl-16212.pdf txt/crl-16212.txt