Inscriptions: watermark; GROSVENOR / HAND MADE ; throughout; brown ink and graphite; Order of Chaucer / 1 The Tales [-7] / 2 ABC of Chaucer --------------- / 3 Complaint of Pity / 4 Complaint of Mars / 5 Complaint of Venus / 6 Complaint of Anelyda against the False Arcite / 7 The Former Age / 8 Good Council of Chaucer / 9 A Proverb / 10 Lines to Scogan / 11 Lines to Buckton / A ballad of Gentlesse / 13 Visage sans Peinture / Complaint to his Purse } minor poems making in all 13 p.p / 15 Romaunt of the Rose [17] / 16 Parliament of Fowles [6] / 17 Boethius [2] / 18 Death of Blanche the Dutchess [1] / 19 The Astrolabeie [1] 20 Legend of Good Women [12] / 21 House of Fame [6 at least] / 22 ('Troil' crossed out) Troilus & Cressida ['8' (crossed out) 12]; [ ] indicates graphite, all other inscriptions brown ink
Incorrectly ascribed to Burne-Jones, the handwriting is that of William Morris.