1881 The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress

Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

An early UK edition. First published in the US in 1869.

Bound in the publisher's original pictorial red cloth.

With a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated October 1881.

A humorous travel book documenting the "Great Pleasure Excursion" of Quaker City, a chartered steamship carrying a group of American travellers as they journey through Europe and the Holy Land. Also known under the title 'The New Pilgrim's Progress', this work became one of the best-selling travel books of all time.

The work of American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote under his well-known pseudonym Mark Twain. Known for his humorist works, Twain was celebrated as one of the greatest American writers, being labelled by William Faulkner as "the father of American literature".

Profusely illustrated throughout, with a frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations. 

With the bookplate of Irish entomologist and arachnologist, Denis Robert Pack Beresford.