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BUNYAN, JOHN. The Holy War, made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, For the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World.Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Bunyan; lacks the folding plate. [8], 397, [3] pages. 8vo, later 19th-century black morocco by W. Pratt, rebacked retaining original backstrip; contents washed, marginal restoration in numerous places occasionally affecting pagination but not text. London: Dorman Newman and Benjamin Alsop, 1682
first edition of the second of Bunyan's two great religious allegories. "If The Pilgrim's Progress dramatizes the popular Puritan metaphor of life as wayfaring, The Holy War develops the equally popular metaphor of spiritual warfaring. The tale is at once an allegory of the individual soul and of the history of the Christian church" (DLB). Pforzheimer 116; STC B5538.
