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Title PageThe Select Works of John Bunyan (1864)

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. The Selec [...]

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Added: 2018-03-13

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The Pilgrims met on coming out of the river.The Select Works of John Bunyan (1864)

An illustration for Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan): Now, upon the bank of the river, on the other side, they saw the two shining men again, who there waited for them. Wherefore, being come out of th [...]

Keywords: angels, people, men, pilgrims, rivers, water, cherubs, wings, christianity, mythical creatures, religion, costumes, john bunyan, colour

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Added: 2018-06-05

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John Bunyan’s CottageHome Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

An engraving of the cottage in Elstow where John Bunyan lived, and a portrait of him.

John Bunyan is chiefly famous for writing the moral story Pilgrim’s Progress.

Keywords: john bunyan, cottages, people, writers, portraits, men, greyscale

Places shown: Elstow; Bedfordshire; England

Added: 2022-05-28

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Lord Will-be-Will’s SallyThe Select Works of John Bunyan (1864)

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 e [...]

Keywords: knights, battles, soldiers, weapons, death, violence, people, men, moustaches, beards, john bunyan, colour, chromolithographs

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Added: 2018-03-14

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John Bunyan at Bedford Gaol.The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

John Bunyan was born at Elstow, near Bedford, in 1628. His parents were poor, and he received the merest rudiments of education. As a youth he became notorious for his profanity, but his vigorous n [...]

Keywords: john bunyan, people, writers, prisons, punishments, chains, leg irons, cats, animals, arches, children, men, women, hats, costume, misery, greyscale

Places shown: Bedford; Bedfordshire; England

Added: 2018-08-12

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John Bunyan’s chained leg in prisonThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

This detail from John Bunyan at Bedford Gaol shows a manacle or leg-iron around John Bunyan’s black-stocking’d leg fastened to a heavy chain which is set into the wall of the prison. I’ve sized this i [...]

Keywords: chains, feet, leg irons, prison, punishments, shoes, john bunyan, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2018-08-13

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