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Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Title(s):
Etchings illustrating Chaucer's Canterbury tales / Elisabeth Frink ; introduction and translation by Nevill Coghill.
Additional Title(s):
Canterbury tales. Selections 1973.
Published/Created:
London : Waddington, 1972.
Physical Description:
[192] p. : ill. ; 67 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B P 4 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B P 4 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3260428
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is no. [C171] of the boxed unbound edition, issued in portfolio, signed by the artist. Copy 2 is no. [A24] of the De Tete edition, signed by the artist. Bound in English hide over millboard, inlaid on front with natural vellum.
At head of title: Elisabeth Frink.
From Manet to Hockney. London, 1985. 149.
Includes full text in modern English, of all the tales. Nineteen full-page plates, illustrating 19 of the tales, included in paging, not numbered. Versos blank.
Subject Terms:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales -- Illustrations.
Etching -- Specimens -- 1973.
Waddington Gallery -- Publisher.
Contributors:
Frink, Elisabeth, Dame, 1930–1993.
Coghill, Nevill, 1899–1980.
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  • The Prologue
  • The Knight's tale
  • The Miller's tale
  • The Reeve's tale
  • The Shipman's tale
  • The Prioress's tale
  • Tale of St. Tropaz
  • The Nun's Priest's tale
  • The Pardoner's tale
  • The Wife of Bath's tale
  • The Summoner's prologue
  • The Clerk's tale
  • The Merchant's tale
  • The Squire's tale
  • The Franklin's tale
  • The Second Nun's tale
  • The Manciple's tale.

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