Illustrating Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": Eric Gill's Woodcuts for the Golden Cockerel Press.
- Author / Editor
- Wilcockson, Colin.
Illustrating Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": Eric Gill's Woodcuts for the Golden Cockerel Press.
- Published
- Anglistik 25.1 (2014): 29-43.
- Description
- Discusses the "relationship of engravings to narrative" in Eric Gill's woodcuts for the Cockerel Press four-volume edition of CT (1929–31), focusing on its frontispieces and "late or climactic moments in the tales," with b&w illustrations. Comments on the sexual explicitness in book illustration, comparing Gill's works with those by Edward Burne-Jones, Aubrey Beardsley, and others.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Canterbury Tales--General