The Ancient Poem of Guillaume De Guileville, Entitled Le Pelegrinage De Lhomme, Compared with the Pilgrims Progress of John Bunyan
by Hill, Nathaniel
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn, joints cracked, first pages through page 7 detached or loose, rippling and staining to p
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About This Item
London: Basil Montagu Pickering. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn, joints cracked, first pages through . page 7 detached or loose, rippling and staining to preliminary and last . several leaves.. 1858. Leather. Edited from notes collected by the late Mr. Nathaniel Hill of the Royal Society of Literature. Halfbound brown leather with brown cloth sides. Five raised bands on spine with title and devices stamped in compartments. xvi, 42 pp + lxviii pp appendix. Early example of a photograph plate frontispiece (image of John Bunyan portrait) , and many other illustrations reproducing woodcuts and other illustrations from the two subject literary works, including several in color. Two-page list of Basil Montagu Pickerings publications bound in before front free endpaper and list of additional subscribers bound in after xvi. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43041
- Title
- The Ancient Poem of Guillaume De Guileville, Entitled Le Pelegrinage De L’homme, Compared with the Pilgrim’s Progress of John Bunyan
- Author
- Hill, Nathaniel
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn, joints cracked, first pages through page 7 detached or loose, rippling and staining to p
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Basil Montagu Pickering
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1858
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- EARLY Photography, Photographically Illustrated, John Bunyan
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary History and Criticism; Photography;
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Old Saratoga Books
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Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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