This slight work was an effort to build a market for the Canterbury Pilgrims engraving. It presents the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and the descriptions of each of the twenty-nine pilgrims, along with contemporary translations. "The Editor" offered readers the opportunity to compare "the heads, as represented by Mr. Blake . . . with the lineaments drawn by Chaucer, and . . . the merit of the Artist will be generally acknowledged." The goal was to bring the print "to the notice of the Encouragers of Art." At least four states of the engraving were produced from about 1810 to 1823. Nevertheless, there were few buyers.
Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400), The Prologue and Characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims . . . intended to illustrate a particular design of Mr. William Blake which is Engraved by Himself, PML 62448