The Pilgrim's Progress
from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream... The thirty-first edition. Adorned with curious sculptures, engraven by J. Sturt.
Stock Code 114609
London, Printed for W. Johnston, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, B. Law, and J. Fuller, 1766
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Illustrated with 22 engraved plates. An excellent, well-illustrated edition of this indisputable classic, often considered the first English novel.
Bunyan (d.1688) began writing The Pilgrim's Progress during his lengthy imprisonment in Bedford Gaol following his arrest in 1661 under the auspices of legislation designed to stamp-out nonconformist religion. The work was not published until February 1678, when it was released to incredible popular acclaim, with over 10,000 copies sold in the first year, including 4000 from a pirated edition. By 1680 the text had been translated into 147 languages, and has not been out of print since.
'The early demand for the book was not from the learned, but from the pious and young. It was at first fashionable to sneer at Bunyan as a writer, but the approval of such as Swift, Johnson and Walpole marked a change. Now it is universally known and loved, and the parable of salvation is accepted by all denominations' (PMM).
Thirty-first edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); 22 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, 1f. publisher's ads to rear, obscured ownership inscription in pen to title, occasional offsetting, a little toned; 20th century mottled calf gilt for Sotherans, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, housed in a brown morocco backed slipcase, extremities of case slightly rubbed; xvi, 212, [2], [12], 196, [2]pp.
ESTC T58374/N492956; cf.PMM 156.
Bunyan (d.1688) began writing The Pilgrim's Progress during his lengthy imprisonment in Bedford Gaol following his arrest in 1661 under the auspices of legislation designed to stamp-out nonconformist religion. The work was not published until February 1678, when it was released to incredible popular acclaim, with over 10,000 copies sold in the first year, including 4000 from a pirated edition. By 1680 the text had been translated into 147 languages, and has not been out of print since.
'The early demand for the book was not from the learned, but from the pious and young. It was at first fashionable to sneer at Bunyan as a writer, but the approval of such as Swift, Johnson and Walpole marked a change. Now it is universally known and loved, and the parable of salvation is accepted by all denominations' (PMM).
Thirty-first edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); 22 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, 1f. publisher's ads to rear, obscured ownership inscription in pen to title, occasional offsetting, a little toned; 20th century mottled calf gilt for Sotherans, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, housed in a brown morocco backed slipcase, extremities of case slightly rubbed; xvi, 212, [2], [12], 196, [2]pp.
ESTC T58374/N492956; cf.PMM 156.
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