1895 Scarce variant Binding - The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Illustrated.
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Author: John Bunyan. Thomas Dalziel, illustrator.
Title: The Pilgrim s Progress. From this World to That Which is Come. With One Hundred Illustrations.
Publisher: London, Melbourne, and Toronto, Ward Lock & Co. Limited, no date (1890).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 9" X 6".
Page: xix-304 pages.
Binding: Scarce in this attractive variant, very good original illustrated and gilt decorated binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good content (tight, some foxing mainly to the premiliminare&last pages and on the outer edges - as shown, gift note of a previous 1914 owner on the second blank page - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 100 illustrations by Thomas Dalziel.
Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies in this attractive binding variant for sale worldwide).
The book: Scarce in this attractive binding variant and attractive edition of The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come which is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print. It has also been cited as the first novel written in English.
The author: John Bunyan (30 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.
The illustrator: Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (1823–1906) was an English engraver known chiefly for his illustrations of the work of Charles Dickens.