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HardBack. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Presumed 1st Edition Thus, J. Hagger, Paternoster Row, London, no date, circa [1850]. Folio, Very Thick Royal 8vo. lxi + 961pp. Profuse and wonderful illustrations by the great Horace Castelli, including; 31 full page engraved plate illustrations called for, collated all present and very good, with full tissue-guards intact, 2 of which black and white frontispieces to Pilgrim's Progress and Holy War, 29 full page colour plate illustrations, 91 black and white in-text engraved illustrations, decorated initial letters, additional full page plate not called for; 'Relics of Bunyan', with black and white engravings of Bunyan's pulpit, chair, cabinet, pocket-scales, large knife, pocket knife and apple scoop. Closed tear to leaf edge pp62 (1"), else very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, well held in joints and hinges. Beautifully bound in gilt lettered calf leather half bound over wide weave cloth boards, gilt dentelles. Great shelf presence featuring 5 raised gilt decorated bands and 5 scrolled leaf gilt decorated compartments to sunned spine, gently rubbed to tail and extremities, rolled to lower corners, all edges very bright gilt. Huge and heavy tomes such as this incur additional postage, possibly prohibitively especially overseas. A great Edition for reader, scholar and collector alike, and a fabulous gift. Bunyan began writing Pilgrim's Progress whilst imprisoned for preaching Puritanism following the restoration of the monarchy. Grace Abounding was also written in prison, and is included in the present volume, along with Holy War, Divine Endeavours, Ebal and Gerzim, Scriptural Poems, Relation of Imprisonment and a Life of Bunyan. The Bible and Foxe's Book of Martyrs accompanied Bunyan in prison, and their influence in apparent in his writing of Pilgrim's Progress, a Frame Tale and Road Story, arguably in the line of descent from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and antecedent to Kerouac's On The Road!