PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, WITH AN ILLUSTRATIVE MEMOIRE OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE...
by John Bunyan; Thomas Scott
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
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Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. ca 1853. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Portrait of the author by W. Sharp, title vignette, illustrated with engravings on steel, and includes a facsimile of the will of John Bunyon. Hand-Colored frontis of indeterminate date, Foxing to Frontis and it's tissue cover, light offset to title page. Brwon impressed publisher's cloth with gilt emblem.. By John Bunyan ; with a memoir of the author's life by Thomas Scott, Rector of Aston Sandford, Bucks. Xvi, 192, [8] leaves of plates. Spine edge reattached. Undated but circa 1853. .
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- Title
- PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, WITH AN ILLUSTRATIVE MEMOIRE OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE...
- Author
- John Bunyan; Thomas Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co.
- Date Published
- ca 1853
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile;
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