The Pilgrim's Progress
by Bunyan, John
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
[Essex House Press, London, 1899]. Limited Editioin. 12mo in 8s. Limited to 750 copies. The present copy is #379. 426pp, (3) pp. colophon. This is the third book printed at the Essex House Press, which was funded by Laurence Hodson and C.R. Ashbee in the hope to keep living the traditions of good printing that William Morris had revived, and with the help of T. Binning and J. Tippit, compositors, and S. Mowlem, pressman, who came from the Kelmscott Press. Engraved frontispiece, text in red and black, bound in full vellum, spine lettering black. From the library of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy who was an important pioneer historian and philosopher of Indian art, metaphysician, and foremost interpreter of Indian culture to the West. A handsome copy with one tiny closed edge tear to foot.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023323
- Title
- The Pilgrim's Progress
- Author
- Bunyan, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Editioin
- Publisher
- [Essex House Press, London, 1899]
- Keywords
- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
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Glossary
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....