An illustration that went with one of the stories from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. I illustrated four tales with wood engravings and hand-set type, printed them all and bound them for my degree show.

He was a shepherde and noght a mercenarie.And thogh he hooly were and vertuous,He was to synful men nat despitous,Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne,But in his techyng discreet and benynge.

50mm x 75mm