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John Bunyan | First Editions
1628 - 1688
John Bunyan (baptised 30 November 1628 – died 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Baptist preacher, best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress. He wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.Bunyan became interested in religion after his marriage, first attending the parish church, and then joining the Bedford Meeting (a nonconformist group in Bedford). In this period, he became a preacher. After the restoration of the monarch, Bunyan was arrested and spent the next twelve years in jail. His sentence length was due to his refusal to give up preaching. During this time, he wrote a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and began work on his most famous book, The Pilgrim's Progress, which was not published until some years after his release. The Pilgrim's Progress became one of the most published books in the English language; 1,300 editions having been printed by 1938, 250 years after the author's death.
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The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that Which is to Come.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, No date [c.1900]. [Christian literature] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.350. With eight illustrated plates by Brock including a frontispiece. Contemporary brown half calf, brown cloth over boards. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. With the gilt armorial device of The Mathematical..... More
The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that Which is to Come: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream.
London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1845. [Christianity] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 282. With 270 engravings including a frontispiece. Contemporary dark blue half calf, marbled paper over boards. Gilt titles and tooling to spine. Brown endpapers. Moderately toned, marked and spotted throughout, heaviest to preliminaries. Two..... More
Illustrated Edition of the Select Works of John Bunyan: with an original sketch of the author's life and times; and notes by the editor of "Sturm's Family Devotions." Containing The Pilgrim's Progress; The Holy War; Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; A Confession of My Faith; A Reason of My Faith; Jerusalem Sinner Saved; Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ; Differences in Judgement About Water Baptism; Peaceable Principles and True; The Life and Death of Mr. Badman; The Pharisee and the Publican; Bunyan's Last Sermon; Bunyan's Dying Sayings; The Life and Times of Bunyan.
London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, no date [circa 1850's]. [Christian Spirituality] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.[6] 670 [4]; pp.[6] 1300 [2] cxxxvi [4]. With 31 steel-engraved plates, each with a tissue guard, including a frontispiece to each volume and a...... More
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