1860 John Bunyan Puritan Pilgrim’s Progress Illustrated 1ed Charles Kingsley ART

1860 John Bunyan Puritan Pilgrim’s Progress Illustrated 1^ed Charles Kingsley ART

John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is one of the most important theological works ever written. Thought to be first printed in 1678, Bunyan began writing this story while in prison. It is known that while Bunyan was in prison, his only companions were the Bible and Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs” – thus, the two literary giants in his jail cell certainly influenced the writing of “Pilgrim’s Progress.” A Quaker by the name of Granger visited Bunyan in prison and says of him:

“Bunyan, who had been mentioned among the least and lowest of our writers, and even ridiculed as a driveller by those who had never read him, deserves a much higher rank than is commonly imagined. His ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ gives us a clear and distinct idea of Calvinistic divinity.”

This 1860 edition includes beautiful illustrations by Charles Kinglsey, the first to features Kinglsey’s art.

Item number: #28172

Price: $499

BUNYAN, John

Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.

Details:

• Collation: Complete
  • xxxv, [1], 399, [1]
  • 44 numbered plates
  • Dozens of in-text woodcuts
• Provenance:
  • Prize bookplate – Henry Thomas
    • Halton Grammar School, 1872
  • Handwritten – Angela McCulloch, 1932
• Reference: Lowndes 312; Allibone I-284
  • “…the best-known uninspired allegory which has been composed by the wit of man.” –Allibone
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Prize Binding: Red Moroccan leather
• Size: ~8.25in X 6.25in (21cm x 16cm)

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