Chaucer illustrated : five hundred years of the Canterbury tales in pictures / [editors] William K. Finley & Joseph Rosenblum

Finley, William K.

2003, 1st edition. New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #428525
ISBN: 1584561025

Physical description; xxxiii, 445 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Marginal portraits and the fiction of orality : the Ellesmere manuscript / Mary C. Olson -- Presenting the text : pictorial tradition in fifteenth-century manuscripts of the Canterbury tales / Phillipa Hardman -- The woodcut illustrations in early printed editions of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / David R. Carlson -- Tales told and tellers of tales : illustrations of the Canterbury tales in the course of the eighteenth century / Betsy Bowden -- From Canterbury to Jerusalem : interpreting Blake's Canterbury pilgrims / Warren Stevenson -- Thomas Stothard's The pilgrimage to Canterbury (1806) : a study in promotion and popular taste / Dennis M. Read -- Victorian illustrations to Chaucer's Canterbury tales / Judith L. Fisher and Mark Allen -- The Kelmscott Chaucer / Duncan Robinson -- Rockwell Kent's Canterbury pilgrims / Jake Milgram Wein -- The Golden cockerel press, the Canterbury tales & Eric Gill : decoration and the mise en page / Peter Holliday. Subjects; Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400. Canterbury tales ; Illustrations. Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury tales. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in art. Tales, Medieval. Illustration. The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer).

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