The Pilgrim's Progress By John Bunyan. Illuminated.

A very good full leather binding with elaborate gilt decoration and coloured cornerpieces. 4to. 11.3" x 8.3" x 1.25". pp.xxiv./ pp.374/[2pp. - List of Illustrations] + [7] leaves of plates. Text printed within ornamental wood-engraved compartments, coloured green, blue, green and red, dark green, red, yellow, pink, red and blue. llustrated title page, lithographed by H. Wilson, Glasgow. With Rev. Thomas Scott's Life of Bunyan on pp. [iii]-xvi. Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Bunyan by W. Sharp after W.S. Wilkinson. Other illustrations engraved by E. Evans, G. Dalziel, and E. Dalziel after W. Sharp, H. Wilson, T. Watt, G.F. Sargent, and W. Harvey. Maroon full calf binding, corners rubbed and bumped. front board with a gilt image of "The Gates Of Heaven", plus gilt corner pieces highlighted in red and blue. Smooth spine with elaborate gilt decoration, gilt title and gilt publisher details. All page edges gilt. Green and gilt decorated endpapers. Light soiling to title-page. Pages lightly toned. A well preserved copy in a very good full leather binding. ** "J. Lumsden and Son is a Scottish engraving and publishing firm founded in 1783 by James Lumsden, most known for its short runs of high quality printings of children's books. The firm also made bookbinders' finishing tools. The founder James Lumsden retired in 1810 and the business passed to his son, also James Lumsden (1778-1856), who adapted its speciality to stationery. When he retired in 1852, the company was taken over by his son (also named) James Lumsden (1808-1879). The majority of books produced by them were sold to affluent families in Scotland and Northern England, with their average book price of sixpence putting them beyond affordability for the average family. The firm was one of the earliest to engage in the practice of releasing the same book under multiple-covers to increase sales; this practice has now meant that books published by Lumsden are highly collectible." - See Wikipedia .

Product Info

Publisher: Glasgow : James Lumsden [ no date - c.1851 ] . 0

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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