An Unrecorded Copy of Blake's 1809 Chaucer Prospectus

Author / Editor
Mertz, J. B.

Title
An Unrecorded Copy of Blake's 1809 Chaucer Prospectus

Published
Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 32.3 (1998-1999): 73-74.

Description
Records a copy (the second known) of William Blake's 1809 Chaucer "Prospectus," pasted into the flyleaf of Francis Douce's copy of Tyrwhitt's edition of CT, now in the Bodleian Library. Pasted opposite is a prospectus for Robert Hartley Cromek's print of Thomas Stothard's painting of the Canterbury pilgrims.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion