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This copy is bound in green cloth-covered boards, stamped in black with a gold-stamped title block. It contains six full-page engraved black and white illustrations. Undated, but this series was published in the 1870s and 80s. Cloth frayed at top and bottom of spine, signatures are separating in a couple of places, with binding string visible between. There are two labels pasted into the front, one inside the cover on the glued endpaper reading "Atheneum Library. No. 82. The other is a return address sticker of a former owner on the front free endpaper. On the back glued endpaper is a price stamp from a previous bookstore that cannot be removed without damaging the paper. No other markings inside.
'As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.'
So begins one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature. An acknowledged classic of the heroic Puritan tradition, and a founding text in the development of the English novel, The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers for over three centuries. The story of Christian, whose pilgrimage takes him through the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, and the Delectable Mountains, is full of danger and adventure. Together with his trusty companions, Faithful and Hopeful, he encounters many enemies—the foul fiend Apollyon, Judge Hategood, Giant Despair of Doubting Castle—before finally arriving at the Celestial City.
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