John Bunyan - The Pilgrims Progress - Life & Death of Mr Badman - Nonesuch Press

The Pilgrim's Progress and the Life & Death of Mr. Badman

By John Bunyan

Published by The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928. Number 628 of an edition limited to 1600 copies. The pages of rag paper give the volume the portliness of figure not inappropriate to a religious volume of the seventeenth century. 8vo, 450 pp. Original publisher's marbled cloth with gilt label, top edge gilt. Eight woodcuts by Karl Michel, stencilled in colour by the Curwen Press.

An elegantly printed version of Bunyan's celebrated allegorical tale of Christian the pilgrim on his journey to the Celestial City. Along the way, Christian encounters both worthy companions and dreadful adversaries. One of an edition of 1600 copies printed at the Kynoch Press on Arches cream wove paper. Illustrated with 8 full-page woodcuts by Karl Michel stencilled in colour at the Curwen Press.

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