Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures
- Author / Editor
- Finley, William K., and Joseph Rosenblum, eds.
Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures
- Published
- New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003.
- Physical Description
- 2003. xxxiii, 445 pp. : 42 color plates and 149 b&w illus.
- Description
- Includes an introduction by the editors and ten essays and three appendices by various authors, who describe and discuss visual depictions of the Canterbury pilgrims and their tales in books and paintings, from the Ellesmere manuscript into the twentieth century. Appendix 1 reprints the Chaucer portion of A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures, Poetical and Historical Inventions, Painted by William Blake . . . (1809). The volume includes an index. For individual essays, search for Chaucer Illustrated under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Rosenblum, Joseph, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.