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BUNYAN, John Pilgrim s Progress from this world to that which is to Come, The 1707

A Lovely Copy of an Early Eighteenth-Century Editionof John Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim s Progress From This World To That which is to Come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream: Wherein is Discovered, The Manner of his setting out, His Dangerous Journey, And Safe Arrival at the Desired Country. The Sixteenth Edition, with Additions of New Cuts. London: Printed for N. Boddington, 1707.Sixteenth edition (first published in 1678). Twelvemo (5 9/16 x 3 3/8 inches; 142 x 84 mm.). [10], 205, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece (included in pagination) and fifteen full-page woodcut illustrations (that on the verso of the last leaf an alternate design of the frontispiece).In the original binding of contemporary sprinkled sheep with covers and spine ruled in blind. A few small holes in spine, one neatly repaired. Leaves B9 and B10 with slight crease, just affecting a couple of letters on pp. 32 and 33. Tiny hole (paper flaw) on E3, just affecting a couple of letters on p. 91. Early ownership inscriptions in red and black ink of John Cooke, variously dated 1709-1728, on front free endpaper, recto of frontispiece, frontispiece, in upper blank margin of pp. 156 and 157, and on last page of text, his name added to the cloud above Bunyan s dreaming head in the frontispiece, dates in red ink added in the title border, and a few red ink markings on p. 142, none of these offensive. A superb copy. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell box.Nicholas Boddington s name first appears as bookseller of the thirteenth edition of 1693. All early editions of this classic work are rare. OCLC locates only two copies of this edition (at the New York Public Library and at Amherst College).See Printing and the Mind of Man 156.

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