Author: John Bunyan; William Mason [ed.]
Title: The Pilgrim&Apos;S Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream
Description: London, Charles Griffin and Company , c1862. Leather. John Bunyan's significant work of religious and theological fiction, The Pilgrim's Progress. Richly illustrated. A copy of this significant allegorical work by John Bunyan. The thirteenth edition, dated from the fourteenth edition by Griffin on Jisc c1862. The author's most important work, the story was written in 1678; since then, the book has been translated into more than two hundred languages and has never run out of print. Containing a Christian allegory which is regarded as the most significant works of religious and theological fiction in English literature.In two parts, each reading as a continuous narrative with no chapter division.With notes experimental and practical by William Mason, and a biography of John Bunyan. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. In a half calf binding with cloth covered boards. Externally sound with some shelf wear and a slight rubbing to the leather, with some minor rubbing and markings to the boards. Inscribed by a previous owner to the verso of the front free endpaper, dated 1888. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are generally clean throughout with a touch of tone ageing, as usual, and only the minor faint spotting to the occasional leaf, particularly to the first and last few leaves as well as to the leaves of plates, due to the type of paper used. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates.  Good . Ill.: Unnamed. Good .

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