Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
BUNYAN, JOHN. The Pilgrim's Progress, from This World to that which is to Come: Delivered under the similtude of a Dream, in Three Parts. 396 pages. 22 illustrations by Alexander Anderson. 12mo, contemporary sheep, a bit worn, corners bumped; foxing, large tear to O6 crudely repaired; early owner's inscriptions on the front free endpaper. New York: H. Gaine, 1793

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Scarce American edition, not noted by Evans or Ford in his bibliography of Gaine. The type metal cuts are unsigned, but attributed to Alexander Anderson by Hamilton (citing a reference to them in Anderson's diary). This work was reissued by Benjamin Gomez in 1794, with separate titles for each part and other minor variations (Evans 26718). See Gilbert M. Troxell's "An Unrecorded Pilgrim's Progress" in the February 1930 issue of The Colophon. Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators 209.