Accession number
PML 146028-29
Creator
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
Published
London : Cresset Press, 1928.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Vol. 1: "The foregoing text of the first part ... is that of the eleventh edition, printed in London in 1688 ... The proofs have been collated with the copy of the eleventh edition in the British Museum"; v. 2: "The foregoing text of the second part ... is that of the second edition, printed in London in 1687 ... The proofs have been collated with the copy of the second edition in the British Museum"--Colophon.
"The wood-engravings have been cut by Blair Hughes-Stanton & Gertrude Hermes. One hundred and ninety-five copies of this edition have been printed by Bernard Henry Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-upon-Avon on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. These are numbered 1 to 195. Ten copies numbered I to X have been printed on Roman vellum"--Colophon.
Library's copy on hand-made paper lacks leaves bearing the colophon and limitation statement.
"The wood-engravings have been cut by Blair Hughes-Stanton & Gertrude Hermes. One hundred and ninety-five copies of this edition have been printed by Bernard Henry Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-upon-Avon on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. These are numbered 1 to 195. Ten copies numbered I to X have been printed on Roman vellum"--Colophon.
Library's copy on hand-made paper lacks leaves bearing the colophon and limitation statement.
Description
2 v. (174; 162 p.) : ill. (wood engraving) ; 38 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Black boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, in slipcase.
Classification
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