A TRUE RELATION OF THE HOLY WAR, MADE BY SHADDAI UPON DIABOLUS. By John Bunyan, with Annotations by the Rev. Robert Maguire, M.A.; and a Life of Bunyan, by The Rev. William Brock, D.D. Illustrated by H. C. Selous and D. H. Friston.

BUNYAN, JOHN. BROCK, WILLIAM.

Verlag: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, La Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate Hill, E.C. [n.d., c.1863-65], London, 1863

4to. 10.5 x 7.75 inches. lii + 262 + [1] pp. Bound in elaborate brown and purple (rear) cloth, gilt, elaborately decorated gilt. Bevelled board edges. All edges gilt. Some wear and fading of extremities, including corner sand head and tail of spine, which are chipped with a little loss at head. Slight cracking of upper part of rear hinge and occasional traces of foxing; otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated throughout by wood engraved text figures, some whole page, including frontispiece, protected by tissue guard. Decorated by tailpiece vignettes and initials, and by publisher's devices on title page and verso. All text within decorative wood engraved borders. A Christian allegorical novel first published in 1682 by John Bunyan (1628-88). The town of Mansoul is Man's Soul, led into rebellion by Diabolus. Shaddai, the Almighty, sends his son, Emmanuel, to redeem it. The life of Bunyan, bound into many of Cassell's illustrated editions of the author, was by William Brock (1807-75), Baptist minister of the Bloomsbury Chapel, 1848-72, abolitionist and active member of the Peace Society. One of the named illustrators was Henry Courtney Selous (1803-90), painter, lithographer and book illustrator. THEOLOGY/HISTORY FICTION THEOLOGY- CHRISTIAN LIT. FICTION 17TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY THEOLOGY/HISTORY. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 28070

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Titel: A TRUE RELATION OF THE HOLY WAR, MADE BY ...
Verlag: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, La Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate Hill, E.C. [n.d., c.1863-65], London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1863