Etchings Illustrating Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
- Author / Editor
- Frink, Elizabeth, illus.
Etchings Illustrating Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
- Published
- London: Waddington, 1972.
- Physical Description
- 189 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- A large-format art-book version of the Nevill Coghill translation of the poetic portions of CT, with illustrations of the tales (rather than the pilgrims) by Frink and a brief introduction by Coghill that comments on the contemporary vitality of the illustrations and the surprise that the figures are "nude or semi-nude." The illustrations are accompanied by calligraphic selections from the translations. Limited edition: 300 copies.
- Contributor
- Coghill, Nevill, trans.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Canterbury Tales--General