An excellent copy in crushed brown morocco gilt by Roger de Coverly of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, an important work of religious literature, often considered the first English novel. Never out of print, the work was first published in February 1678 to popular acclaim, and has since been translated into more than 200 languages.

Coverly (1831-1914) was apprenticed to Zaehnsdorf and worked briefly for J.& J. Leighton before establishing his own bindery in 1870. William Morris sent him several commissions and T.J. Cobden-Sanderson spent a year's apprenticeship with him from 1883-84.

First Pickering edition; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); engraved frontispiece, bookplates to front pastedown, ownership inscriptions in pen and pencil to front free endpaper, old catalogue description tipped in to front free endpaper recto; crushed brown morocco by Roger de Coverly, Oxford-style panels ruled in gilt, fleuron cornerpieces to gutter margin, spine gilt in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, spine slightly faded, offsetting to title, the odd spot, otherwise internally clean, near fine; xii, 354, [2]pp.