Item #164269 CHAUCER ILLUSTRATED. Geoffrey Chaucer, William K. Finley, Joseph Rosenblum.

CHAUCER ILLUSTRATED.

Five hundred years of The Canterbury Tales in pictures. Pp. xxxiv+446(last blank), 12 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations, appendices, index; roy. 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle & London, 2003. First edition. *'Ten scholarly essays, specifically commissioned for this volume, that collectively trace pictorial renditions of The Canterbury Tales from the Ellesmere Manuscript (c. 1410) to the 20th-century illustrations of Rockwell Kent and Eric Gill. The contributors address the way the illustrations illuminate the history of book production, marketing, and readership; and the writers also consider how artists have interpreted Chaucer's text'. [wrapper blurb]. Item #164269

Price: $125.00