Author: Guillaume de Guileville; John Bunyan; ed. Nathaniel Hill
Title: The Ancient Poem of Guillaume de Guileville, Entitled le Pelerinage de L&Apos;Homme, Compared with the Pilgrim&Apos;S Progress
Description: London, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1858. Cloth. A comparison of renowned Christian allegory 'The Pilgrim's Progress' with the French acrostic poem 'The Pilgrimage of Man&apos. 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is one of the most published books in the English language, with 1,300 editions having been published by 1938, some two hundred and fifty years after the author's death. John Bunyan (1628-1688) was a Puritan preacher and writer, with the majority of his works being expanded sermons. Guillaume de Deguileville (1295-1358) was a French Cistercian and writer, with 'Le Pelerinage de l'Homme' being an acrostic verse.Contains a bookplate denoting that it is ex libris an A. P. Watt. Possibly Alexander Pollock Watt (1838-1914), founder of A. P. Watt literary agency, which is generally regarded as the oldest literary agency in the world.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of John Bunyan, as well as a number of full plate illustrations in both colour and monochrome. In a full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, some wear to extremities and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally generally firmly bound, with pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: verse literary criticism christian allegory literary criticism Not Stated


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