The "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer: The New Ellesmere Chaucer Facsimile (of Huntington Library MS EL 26 C 9)
- Author / Editor
- Woodward, Daniel,and Martin Stevens, eds.
The "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer: The New Ellesmere Chaucer Facsimile (of Huntington Library MS EL 26 C 9)
- Published
- San Marino, Calif.:
- Tokyo: Huntingon Library;
- Yushodo, 1995.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 464 pp.
- Description
- A full-size, full-color facsimile of the Ellesmere manuscript of CT, published in three forms and 250 copies. Copies 1-50 are bound in oak boards fully covered by tawed calf; copies 51-150, in boards and quarter brown leather; and copies 151-250, boxed rather than bound presented in folded but unsewn gatherings.
- The facsimile reproduuces--as exactly as contemporary technology permits--the text, illuminations, wrinkles, smears, scribbles, holes, rules, prick markings, etc. of all pages, with one minor exception: the gold leaf over gesso in the original illustrations lies flat in the facsimile. The letters of the text are clear and easily readable.
- See the companion volume of essays, "The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation."
- Contributor
- Stevens, Martin.
- Alternative Title
- New Ellesmere Chaucer Facsimile.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Canterbury Tales--General.