The Prologue and characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims : selected from his Canterbury Tales : intended to illustrate a particular design of Mr. William Blake : which is engraved by himself.

Accession number

PML 960

Creator

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Published

[London : G. Smeeton], 1812.

Credit line

Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Notes

Frontispiece signed "W Blake inv & sc Published Decr. 26 1811 by Newberry [sic] S'Pauls Ch:Yard"
G. Smeeton, printer, 39 St. Martin's Lane--p. [ii].

Description

iv, 61, [1] p., 1 leaf plates : ill. (front) ; 19 cm

Provenance

John Fremlyn Streatfeild; Toovey's Burnham Abbey, and Pierpont Morgan bookplates.

Binding

Pale brown (once yellow?) straight-grain morocco by Francis Bedford, in modern case.

Classification

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