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John Bunyan

Male : Religious writer. Son a tinker. Drafted into military service in 1644. Became pastor of Baptist church in Bedford in 1655. Arrested in 1660 for preaching without a licence, he was imprisoned at Bedford, where he wrote 6 books. Released 1672 but put back in prison 3 years later
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Elstow, Nr Bedford

Date of Birth : 1628 Date of Death : 1688 Age : 60
A Few Sighs from Hell, or the Groans of a Damned Soul (1658)
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
(1666 George Larkin)
(1962 Clarendon Press)
The Strait Gate, or Great Difficulty in Going to Heaven
(1676)
The Holy City
The Life and Death of Mr Badman
(1680)
A True Relation of The Holy War
(1682)
A Book for Boys & Girls, or Country Rhymes for Children
(1686)
[Only 2 copies exist of this work. Facsimiles were published in 1889 Elliot Stock & 1928]
(By the 1724, 9th Ed it had become "Divine Emblems, or Temporal Things Spiritualized")
The Heavenly Footman
(1698)
The Acceptable Sacrifice, or The Excellency of a Broken Heart
(1698 Richard Janeway for John Gwillim, London. 3rd Ed)
Offered in 1992 for £700
The Works
(1736-7 for E Gardner, London. 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
Offered in 1992 for £365
The Works .. now added The Divine Emblems
(1767 for Johnstone & Dilly. 3rd Ed) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £320
The Holy War made upon Shaddai upon Diabolus
(1791 London)
A True Relation of the Holy War
(1806 Brightly, Bungay) - A New Edition

THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, from This World to that which is to come
The Pilgrim's Progress : 1st Part
(1678 Nathaniel Ponder at the Peacock in the Polutrey) - 2000 copies
[It was priced at 1/6]
1st Part
(1678 Nathaniel Ponder. 2nd Ed)
1st Part
(1679 Nathaniel Ponder. 3rd Ed)
2nd Part
(1685 Nathaniel Ponder)
In Bunyan's lifetime 11 editions were issued
Compleat in Two Parts
(1760 for W Johnston, London. 13th Ed)
(1766 for W Johnston, London. 31st Ed) - engravings by J Sturt
(1778 for H Trapp & A Hogg, London. New Ed)
(1786 Harrison & Co) - E F Burney

19thC
(1805 H Mozley, Gainsborough)
(1817 Isaiah Thomas Jnr, Boston)
(1826 RTS)
With a Life of Bunyan by Robert Southey
(1830 Murray) - 2 plates after John Martin
(1831 Henry Fisher, London) - New Edition with notes by W Mason
(1849 Wm Pickering)
(c1851 Fullarton) - David Scott
(1856 Routledge) - John Gilbert
The Story of the Pilgrim's Progress told for Young People
(1858 Sampson Low) - Edward Wehnert
[Republished in 1860 by Bell & Daldy as "The Children's Pilgrim Progress"]
(1860 Longmans) - C H Bennett
(1861 Routledge) - J D Watson
(1862 Macmillan) - Holman Hunt
(1863 Ward Lock) - T Dalziel
(1871 Groombridge) - A F Lydon
Illustrations to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
(1875 Simpkin Marshall) - Frederic Shields
(1881 John Walker, London) - the Elstow Ed
(1884 McLoughlin Bros, NY) - by Mary Godolphin
Young Folks Pilgrim's Progress
(1890 Hutchinson) - Fred Barnard et al
(1895 [1894] Nimmo) - William Strang
(1897 Gibbings, London) - Charles H Bennett
(1898 Century NY) - Rheads
(1899 Essex House Press for Edward Arnold) - Ltd Ed 750

20thC
(c1900 Nister) - Walter Paget
(1903 RTS) - with 31 permanent Bromide
photographs from original drawings by Harold Copping. Ltd Ed 150
(1928 Cresset Press) - 2 vols. Ltd Ed 205.engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton & Gertrude Hermes
Offered in 1995 for £330
And the Life & Death of Mr Badman
(1928 Nonesuch Press) - 1600. Karl Michel
(1941 Spiral Press for Ltd Eds Club) - paintings by Blake
(1947 Faber) - Edward Ardizzone
(nd. Peter Pauper Press, Mt Vernon) - 1950

READING
William Hale White : John Bunyan
(1908 H & S)
John Brown : John Bunyan : His Life, Times and Work
(1928 Hulbert, London)
Frank Mott Harrison : A Bibliography of the Works of John Bunyan
(1932 Bibl Society, London)
Roger Sharrock : John Bunyan
(1955 Hutchinson 8/6)

Related Writers

Robert Southey


See also

Val (balint Stephen) Biro
Vera Mary Brittain
Henry Matthew Brock
Children's Illustrated Classics
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
Jack Lindsay
Nonesuch Press, The
Frank Cheyne Pape
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics
William Heath Robinson