1830 The Pilgrim's Progress, with A Life of John Bunyan by Robert Southey

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The first edition thus, large paper edition, with plates on India Paper.

Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and two copper engraved plates by J. Martin, and further vignette woodcuts by W. Harvey. Collated, compete.

This Christian allegory, first published in 1678, is often regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, with antecedents in a large number of Christian devotional works, each speaking of the soul's path to Heaven.

This religious allegory is sometimes cited as the first novel written in the English language.

With newspaper clipping titled 'Bunyan's Place in History' tipped in to a front blank, and a bibliographical notice about this work to the front pastedown.

The first edition of this work to contain Southey's Life of Bunyan and the first edition to be edited by him.