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Etchings illustrating Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales.' Introduction and Translation by Nevill Coghill

Frink, Elizabeth

London. Waddington. 1972
Chaucer illustrated by Elizabeth Frink.

From the edition limited to 300 copies, with this from the édition de tête of 50 copies, numbered A1 - A50, leather bound, signed and numbered by the artist.
pp. 189. Large folio. (648 x 928 mm). 19 original etchings by Elisabeth Frink. Publisher's full green morocco binding, vellum inlay on the front cover with a design by Frink, slipcase.
#48576

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