Bunyan (John), The Pilgrim's Progress, [...] to which are ad...

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Bunyan (John), The Pilgrim's Progress, [...] to which are added Explanatory Notes; Together with the Memoirs of the Life of the Author, A New and Improved Edition, Stourbridge: Printed by J. Heming, n.d. [1809], lacking half-title (if called for), 404pp, four plates, including an engraved portrait of the author, split, mostly holding but with a couple of leaves loose/loosening, some uneven, contemporary sheep, perished spine split, yet holding, early 19th c and later manuscript ownership inscriptions for members of the Marsh and Parkes families, 8vo in 4s; [Theatre] a sammelband of four early 18th c plays, Dryden (John), The Spanish Fryar (sic), Troilus and Cressida, & Don Sebastian, King of Portgual, [with] Shadwell (Thomas), Don John: or, The Libertine Destroy'd, London: mixed publishers, 1736, 1735, 1735, & 1736, each drama with engraved frontispiece, late 18th/early 19th c calf over marbled boards, 12mo; [American Printing] The Book of Common Prayer, [...] together with The Psalter, or Psalms of David, Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, 1825, double-column, additional engraved title-page, divisional titles, finely bound in contemporary crimson morocco, rolled in blind and gilt, rubbed, 8vo; a devotional sammelband, another BCP and Psalms, stereotype edition, Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, et al, 1807, [bound with] Brady & Tate's New Version of the Psalms of David, Oxford: Dawson and Co., 1806, two titles bound as one, double-column, split at recto gutter with some movement, finely bound in contemporary Regency crimson straight-grained morocco gilt, flat spine, all edges gilt, 8vo; and twenty other volumes, mostly literature, early 19th c and later, leather, part-leather and other decorative bindings, mixed sizes, (24)

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