The Golden Cockerel Press, The Canterbury Tales & Eric Gill: Decoration and the Mise en Page
- Author / Editor
- Holliday, Peter.
The Golden Cockerel Press, The Canterbury Tales & Eric Gill: Decoration and the Mise en Page
- Published
- William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (SAC 27 [2005], no. 105), pp. 326-67.
- Description
- Holliday considers Eric Gill's wood-engraving illustrations to The Canterbury Tales (4 vols., Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31) in light of Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings (owner of the press), the legacy of Edward Johnston (Gill's teacher of lettering), and the Arts and Crafts movement, which can be traced to William Morris. Gill's breaks with tradition are evident in his greater concern with typographical design than with historical atmosphere.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures
- Chaucer Subjects
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