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Full Straight-grained Morocco. Zustand: Good. 396 pp. Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco. Blind decorative border and gold stamp to boards, gold decoration and lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Front hinge cracking and fragile. Bumping to corners and minor rubbing to extremities, a few marks to boards. Ownership inscriptions in ink from 1827 to front blanks and some foxing to leaves. Engraved frontis and title-page illustration. Small format book - binding 13.2cm tall. Considered as one of the most important works of theological fiction in English literature. Literary editor Robert McCrum writes on 'Pilgrim's Progress': "there's no book in English, apart from the Bible, to equal Bunyan's masterpiece for the range of its readership, or its influence on writers as diverse as William Hogarth, C. S. Lewis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, George Bernard Shaw, William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Enid Blyton." 12mo.…

Full Calf. Zustand: Near Fine. xii, 375, [1] pp. Contemporary full calf. All edges gilt, spine gilt and gilt board edges and dentelle turn-ins. Front endpaper has a list of women's names written in different hands in black ink. Light scratching to binding and light rubbing to extremities. Considered as one of the most important works of theological fiction in English literature. Literary editor Robert McCrum writes on 'Pilgrim's Progress': "there's no book in English, apart from the Bible, to equal Bunyan's masterpiece for the range of its readership, or its influence on writers as diverse as William Hogarth, C. S. Lewis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, George Bernard Shaw, William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Enid Blyton." Binding 15.8cm tall. Small 8vo.…