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1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

1880 Rare Color Illustrated Edition – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

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Author: John Bunyan.
Title: The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream.
Publisher: London, James Nisbet & Co., 21 Berners Street, 1880.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7" x 5".
Pages: xi-379 pages + publisher’s catalog.
Binding: Attractive and very good original Victorian publisher’s blue decorative cloth binding, gilt-stamped to spine and front board with black stamped ornamental borders. Spine richly gilt with title and symbolic motifs. Rear board with blind-stamped decoration (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown). A fine Victorian gift book presentation of Bunyan’s masterpiece.
Illustrations: Complete with a striking color frontispiece and 15 additional full-page color illustrations, finely executed and vividly hand-colored, bringing Bunyan’s allegory to life.

 

The book: This 1880 Nisbet edition of The Pilgrim’s Progress offers readers a richly illustrated Victorian presentation of John Bunyan’s immortal allegory. Originally published in 1678, Bunyan’s work has remained one of the most widely read books in the English language, second only to the Bible in popularity for centuries. This edition, handsomely bound in blue cloth and illuminated with 16 beautiful color plates, reflects the 19th-century taste for elaborate gift books designed to inspire devotion and delight the eye.

The author: John Bunyan (1628–1688), the English Puritan preacher and author, is best remembered for The Pilgrim’s Progress, written during his imprisonment for nonconformist preaching. His allegory of Christian’s spiritual journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City has had a profound influence on Christian thought, literature, and culture, enduring as a cornerstone of devotional reading.

The illustrations: The 16 full-page color plates in this edition vividly portray Christian’s perilous journey, including emblematic episodes such as “Christian Flies from the City of Destruction” and “The Hill Difficulty.” Their hand-colored richness exemplifies the Victorian dedication to enhancing classic texts with vibrant illustrative art, making this copy not only a devotional text but also a collector’s treasure.