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

New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxxiii, 445 pp., 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. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in art. Tales, Medieval. Book Illustration - Poetry - United Kindom. William Blake [1757-1827]. Thomas Stothard, R.A. [1755-1834]. Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A. [1833-1898]. Eric Gill, A.R.A. [1882-1940].