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Verlag: Basil Montagu, London, 1858
Anbieter: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Kanada
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. First Edition Thus. xvi, 42, lxviii p. 27 cm. Frontispiece portrait. Reproductions of woodcuts from the Paris edition, 1511. Blue cloth hardcover. Corners bumped, spine ends a bit worn, spine cloth wrinkled, spots on back cover. Some page edges roughened. Includes extracts from the French poem (second recension) and long passages from the metrical translation ascribed to Lydgate.
Verlag: Basil Montagu Pickering, London, 1858
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). A comparison of renowned Christian allegory 'The Pilgrim's Progress' with the French acrostic poem 'The Pilgrimage of Man'. 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is one of the most published books in the English language, with 1,300 editions having been published by 1938, some two hundred and fifty years after the author's death. John Bunyan (1628-1688) was a Puritan preacher and writer, with the majority of his works being expanded sermons. Guillaume de Deguileville (1295-1358) was a French Cistercian and writer, with 'Le Pelerinage de l'Homme' being an acrostic verse.Contains a bookplate denoting that it is ex libris an A. P. Watt. Possibly Alexander Pollock Watt (1838-1914), founder of A. P. Watt literary agency, which is generally regarded as the oldest literary agency in the world.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of John Bunyan, as well as a number of full plate illustrations in both colour and monochrome. In a full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, some wear to extremities and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally generally firmly bound, with pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.