The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come
delivered under the similitude of a dream
by John Bunyan
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Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity Fair, Doubting Castle, the Wicket Gate, as well as those who tempt him from his path (e.g., Talkative, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, the Giant Despair). But in the end he reaches Beulah Land, where he awaits the crossing of the river of death and his entry into the heavenly city. "Pilgrim's Progress" was enormously influential not only as a best-selling inspirational tract in the late 17th century, but as an ancestor of the 18th-century English novel, and many of its themes and ideas have entered permanently into Western culture.
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"The second part" precedes "Delivered under the similitude ..." on title page.
"Note, the third part suggested to be J. Bunyan's, is an imposture."--Title page.
Signatures: A-H℗£℗ø.
A4, H3 signed D4, H5 respectively.
In gathering C of this issue, the last line of page 39 reads: 'band and his king;' the last line of page 43 reads: 'please, let us hear your discourse thereof'.
In gathering E, page 86 last line, first word: 'Guide'; catchword p.101: 'Hon.' In the frontispiece illustration, the church tower above the children's heads has windows.
Publisher's advertisement on H12 verso.
English short title catalogue, T58930
Cataloged 20180404 jmoschella
condition reviewed 20180406 cletizia
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.389b.191 imperfect: F8, F9 (pages 123-126) wanting. Bound in modern purple goatskin. Bookplate of the BPL Billings Fund. Note with modern bibliographic inscription tipped in at front. Ca. 18th-/19th-century inscription on A1 recto: "W[illegible] Reffell his book." BPL ink stamp on frontispiece. BPL embossed stamp on title page. Inscription at head of A3 recto: "Richard Reffel his Book." Pen trials throughout. Purchased in May, 1931.
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