Description
NO. 429 OF 750 COPIES, 16mo, pp. [ii], 426, [2] + frontispiece. Printed in black and red throughout. Unopened in original vellum boards, spine lettered direct in black. A little spotting to page-edges, spine slightly creased.
The Pilgrim’s Progress, from this World to that Which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of A Dream. Wherein is Discovered the Manner of his Setting Out; His Dangerous Journey and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country.
- Bow: Essex House Press, Published by Edward Arnold 1899
£300
Notes
An attractive pocket edition of Bunyan's allegory, published by C.R. Ashby's Essex House Press, which sought to carry on the revival in printing begun by William Morris with his Kelmscott Press, following Morris's death in 1896. To that end, he bought Morris's old presses and employed some Kelmscott pressmen and compositors. The woodcut frontispiece is by Reginald Savage.
'The fat little pocket books - only the loosest overcoat could have held them-[...] are charming to read and bravely set in the usual size of Caslon with a smaller version of Ashbee's initial letters.' (Franklin, The Private Presses. London, 1969, p. 79.)
