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[Frontis. and title page - no illus.] – Historic Print

[Frontis. and title page - no illus.] — historic print
[Frontis. and title page - no illus.]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures [Frontis. and title page - no illus.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Frontis. and title page - no illus.]

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This is the frontispiece and title page of John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*, printed in London in 1678, and the catalog notes that the sheet carries no illustrations, so its appeal lies in the printed page itself. Bunyan, a Bedfordshire preacher, wrote the allegory during his imprisonment for unlicensed preaching, and it became one of the most widely read books in English. Its story of a man named Christian journeying from the City of Destruction toward the Celestial City made it a staple of household reading for generations, in Britain and in the American colonies. The catalog data for this item is unverified and drawn from an old caption card, so details of its exact edition should be checked against the record.

Medium1 print.
Notes1678
SubjectsIllus. in: John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, London, 1678. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; BI--WORKS; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,250 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133863

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