John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress

Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, ca. 1931. [11260] Gray publisher's cloth, decorated in blue, applied color illustration to front, some edge-wear & the back cover with a white blotchy stain. Includes the color dust jacket, edge-tattered with one tear, now in a clear wrapper. 1931 Christmas inscription on ffep. 143 clean pages, illustrated with many b/w full-page and text illustrations & 4 color plates. Publisher's catalogue at end. Good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. A handsome copy of this Christian classic. John Bunyan (1628-1688), b. at Elstow, Bedfordshire, England. "After learning to read and write he followed his father's business of a traveling tinker. Led a dissolute life for some time, but was at length converted, and began to study the Holy Scriptures, in which he acquired a great knowledge. Served in the Parliament Army. Became a member of a Baptist congregation at Bedford, about 1655, to whom he occasionally preached, for which, at the Restoration, he was confined in Bedford for twelve years and a half. It was here that he wrote his Pilgrim's Progress, one of the most original and popular books in the English language. On being released he became teacher of the Baptist congregation at Bedford." - Darling's Cyclopedia Bibliographica.