| Nottingham University Library KMC: | Spec. Coll. PR3330.A1.F28 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | R.B.R. Z239.2.N812 |
| British Library: | C.100.e.1 |
| Nottingham University Library KMC: | Spec. Coll. PR3330.A1.F28 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | R.B.R. Z239.2.N812 |
| British Library: | C.100.e.1 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | Simon 161 |
| Durham University Library: | Hall 0281 |
[A]6r, p.[1]
[within 2-rule border] JOHN BUNYAN 1628 – 1688 [3 lines in gothic] The Pilgrim's Progress AND [4 lines in gothic] The Life & Death of Mr. Badman [flourish] THE NONESUCH PRESS 1928
Printed at Kynoch Press, Birmingham; 8 woodcuts printed by Curwen, hand-coloured through stencils.
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[A]8r, p.[3]
| Editor's introduction | 5-22 |
| Author's apology for his book | i-viii |
| Pilgrim's progress | 1-204 |
| Wood-cuts by Karl Michel facing title page and pages 48, 66, 108 and 162 | |
| The Author to the Reader | ix-xxiii |
| The Life and death of Mr. Badman | 205-450 |
| Wood-cuts by Karl Michel facing pp. 218, 294, and 418 |
[a]8 [A]4 B-Z8 (inc. J and U) 2A-2F8, double endleaves; unpaged inserts: frontispiece [A]5v facing t.p.(p.[1]), others facing pp. 48, 66, 108, 162, 218, 294, 418; (N.B. gathering [a]=pp.[1-4] 5-14, [A]=pp.15-22, B=pp.i-viii,1-8; C1=p.9 etc.).
[1-4] 5-22, [i] ii-viii, [1] 2-204 ix-xxiii [+1] [205] 206-450 [+4].
7¾" × 4¾", white wove, no mark, top edge rough-gilt, others opened left untrimmed; 12pt. Caslon with catchwords, running-titles throughout in 14pt. Deutsche Zierschrift on text pages, in roman on other pages; wood block illustrations, hand-coloured through stencils 7 on rectos of inserts (unpaged, versos blank), + frontispiece similar on verso of insert facing t.p.; casing, marbled paper (maroon), leather label at head of spine, gold-blocked:[within double-filleted zigzag border with roundels at the corners, lines 1 and 4 in Gothic] ‘The Pilgrim's Progress and the Life & Death of Mr. Badman’.
Not in Curwen Library or 1963 handlist; added at the suggestion of Douglas Ball and Pat Gilmour Ac1.
G. B. Harrison is named as Editor at end of Introduction, p.22
Shown at the Zwemmer Gallery 1930 (see Mzi).
8 full-page hand-coloured stencilled illustrations were done by Curwen Press; according to Herbert Simon (Simon, 1973 p.217) the total was 5, but it was actually 8 — he possibly overlooked 3 in The life and death of Mr. Badman.
The complex collation may reflect a change of plan when Harrison concluded (by February 1927) that The life and death of Mr. Badman was Bunyan's original intended sequel, so the printer unexpectedly had to fit into the gatherings before B lengthier introductory matter.
See Dreyfus 1981 cat. 55 :identifies Koch's gothic typeface and describes aspects of editing, illustration and production.
B.L. copy un-numbered; Nottingham copy 179, Aberystwyth 301.
24/Oct/1928
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Robin Phillips, revised 19/Oct/2020