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Bunyan (John) The Holy War, made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, folding engraved plate (skilfully remargined), final advertisement leaf present, single small worn-hole to first few leaves, sig.B damp-stained at lower outer corners, corner torn away from E6, small hole in G8 slightly affecting text, printing flaw on H3v affecting sidenote,short tear at head of R5, some foxing, generally a very good copy in contemporary calf, small nick at head of spine, preserved in modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, [Wing B5538], 8vo, Printed for Dorman Newman and Benjamin Alsop, 1682.

⁂ A very good copy of this rare allegorical epic, about which Macaulay said "if The Pilgrim's Progress had not been written, The Holy War would have been the greatest English allegory" (Cambridge History of English Literature, VII, p.177).

Provenance: George Goyder (book label); and this copy apparently bought at the Harmsworth sale (Sotheby's 27 January 1947, lot 2781); sold by Maggs in 1993.

Description

Bunyan (John) The Holy War, made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, folding engraved plate (skilfully remargined), final advertisement leaf present, single small worn-hole to first few leaves, sig.B damp-stained at lower outer corners, corner torn away from E6, small hole in G8 slightly affecting text, printing flaw on H3v affecting sidenote,short tear at head of R5, some foxing, generally a very good copy in contemporary calf, small nick at head of spine, preserved in modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, [Wing B5538], 8vo, Printed for Dorman Newman and Benjamin Alsop, 1682.

⁂ A very good copy of this rare allegorical epic, about which Macaulay said "if The Pilgrim's Progress had not been written, The Holy War would have been the greatest English allegory" (Cambridge History of English Literature, VII, p.177).

Provenance: George Goyder (book label); and this copy apparently bought at the Harmsworth sale (Sotheby's 27 January 1947, lot 2781); sold by Maggs in 1993.

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