The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream : wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey and safe arrival at the desired country /
Bunyan, John,1628-1688.
Ashbee, Janet E.(Janet Elizabeth)
Ashbee, C. R.(Charles Robert),1863-1942.
Guild of Handicraft (London, England)
Bow : Essex House Press ; [London] : Published by Edward Arnold ...,
1899.
The colophon reads: 'Here ends Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Pt.I. Collated from the earlier editions by Janet E. Ashbee, and printed at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft, Ltd., under the supervision of C.R. Ashbee'.
'This is the third book printed at the Essex House Press, which was founded by Laurence Hodson and C.R. Ashbee, in the hope to keep living the traditions of good printing that William Morris had revived, and with the help of T. Binning and J. Tippett, compositors, and S. Mowlem, pressman, who came from the Kelmscott Press to that end ...' -- Printer's Note.
A limited edition of 750 copies.
The first three words of the title, the caption title, most of the colophon, the rubrics and the names of the speakers are printed in red.