Etchings illustrating Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

signed and numbered by the artist

A monumental book with striking full-page etchings by Frink depicting the figures, animals and birds that characterise her work. The etchings were printed by Cliff White at White Ink Ltd., London, and illustrate 'The Prologue,' 'The Knight's Tale,' 'The Miller's Tale I', 'The Miller's Tale II,' 'The Reeve's Tale,' 'The Shipman's Tale,' 'The Prioress's Tale,' the 'Tale of Sir Topaz,' 'The Nun's Priest's Tale,' 'The Physician's Tale,' 'The Pardoner's Tale,' 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' 'The Summoner's Tale,' 'The Clerk's Tale,' 'The Merchant's Tale,' 'The Squire's Tale,' 'The Franklin's Tale,' 'The Second Nun's Tale' and 'The Manciple's Tale.'

Elisabeth Frink was born in Suffolk in 1930 and became one of Britain's most eminent sculptors. She attended both the Guildford and Chelsea Schools of Art, and had her first major exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London when she was only twenty-two. Throughout her lifetime she was known as one of the most accomplished sculptors of animal and human forms: men, dogs, horses and birds were her most consistent subjects. Her graphic work and drawings privileged the same themes and were executed with the same simplicity and sense of texture that can be found in her sculptural work.

Large folio (64.8 x 92.8 cm). One of 50 copies. 19 original full-page etchings with aquatint in black on J. Barcham Green paper, numbered B98 with artist's signature in ink at rear. Publisher's full green cloth with gold-blocked design on the front cover, housed in cream coloured slip-case.