The Select Works of John Bunyan (page 1/2)

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Some pictures from The Select Works of John Bunyan: With a Life of the Author by George Cheever, D.D., LL.D. and an Introductory Essay on the Pilgrim’s Progress by James Montgomery, Esq. (1864). See the title page for more details.

I bought this book at Berry and Peterson Boksellers in Kingston, Ontario.

Title: The Select Works of John Bunyan

Author: Bunyan, John

Published by: William Collins, Sons, and Company

City: Glasgow

Date: 1864

Total items: 4

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Title Page]

Title Page

The title page has a border of oak leaves and acorns and uses at least seven different ornate styles of type with flourishes. I made a separate image with just the oak-leaf full-page border. [more...]

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[picture: Lord Will-be-Will's Sally]

Lord Will-be-Will’s Sally

The picture shows a battle between knights in shining armour and the soldiers of Diabolus the Nasty Giant. A sally is when knights charge, usually on horseback, out of a besieged castle to fight the enemy. Here Lord Will-be-Will is I think the knight with the spiked mace in the right-hand foreground; other knights in the background are on horseback and there [...] [more...]

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[picture: Full-page oak-leaf border]

Full-page oak-leaf border

This engraved border of oak leaves and acorns would be ideal for an invitation to a sacred druidical confluence, but it’d also make a great frame for a wedding invitation [...] [more...]

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[picture: The Pilgrims met on coming out of the river.]

The Pilgrims met on coming out of the river.

An illustration for Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan): [more...]

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Some pictures from The Select Works of John Bunyan: With a Life of the Author by George Cheever, D.D., LL.D. and an Introductory Essay on the Pilgrim’s Progress by James Montgomery, Esq. (1864). See the title page for more details.

I bought this book at Berry and Peterson Boksellers in Kingston, Ontario.


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