Cottage Lectures or the Pilgrim's Progress Practically Explained
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1849.
Illustrated by Illustrated. Early Printing. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #14749
Top edge and margin dampstain, light tone and random foxing, page corners with creasing, light cock, light edgewear, two owners' signatures, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Early if not first American printing, with publisher's address of 146 Chestnut used only until 1853, and book has no reference to the second part of Overton's work, Christiana and Her Children, published in England in the same year and in 1850 by the American Sunday-School Union. "These publications were very favourably received by the evangelical party, both in England and America." - Dictionary of National Biography. Overton's classic religous literary analysis of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. ; 456 pages.
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