Canty Tales’, as Gill called it, was done on a Columbian press; the final copy (using dampened paper) was printed on a Phoenix platen press. 500 copies were printed: 15 on vellum; 485 on Batchelor hand-made paper. Gill was commissioned to do the wood engravings – some 26 half-page images, plus border decorations and tailpieces, and over 60 initial letters. Gill once wrote ‘the engraving is part of the typography’. This Folio Society facsimile captures well the desired result of balancing text with image.]]> Geoffrey Chaucer]]> Facsimiles]]> Canterbury Tales (1929-1931) depicts Eric Gill’s sublime Pan and bacchanalian figures intertwined on thin leafy stems. He decorated each page in the book, which was first published by GCP in 4 volumes between February 1929 and March 1931. This sheet – along with four others – was given to John Harris (1903-1980) by Robert Gibbings when he was visiting Dunedin in 1947. Harris was then the University of Otago Librarian, and later helped compile a bibliography of the works of Robert Gibbings. Harris left for Africa in 1948, and eventually founded two University libraries in Nigeria. In 1978, the University of Otago Council conferred on Harris an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.]]> Geoffrey Chaucer]]> Printed sheet]]> ___]]> Printed sheet]]>