The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. in Two Parts. A New Edition, Divided into Chapters. With the Life of the Author. To Which Are Added, Explanatory and Practical Notes. Embellished …

viii, 433, [5] pp. 4to. Full calf, black morocco spine label, gilt titles & rules. Frontispiece of author, 5 engraved plates in text. Includes a life of the author, and notes. Religious allegory by John Bunyan, at one time second only to the Bible in popularity. It is a symbolic vision of the pilgrimage through life. The first and best-known book, published in 1678, in which the character Christian travels on the road to salvation from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, is presented as a dream. Written in homely yet dignified biblical prose, the work has some of the qualities of a folktale, and in its humor and realistic portrayals of Mr. Worldly Wiseman, Faithful, Hopeful, Pliant, and Obstinate, it anticipates the 18th-century novel.