Bidspirit auction | Two Volumes: Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's

Two Volumes: Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's Progress. Virtue and Bisset, Robert. History of George III, 1816. - This lot consists of two antique leather-bound volumes and accompanying ephemera. The first volume is an illustrated edition of The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, containing the authenticated third part entitled The Travels of the Ungodly. This edition was collated with early editions and includes illustrative notes by the Rev. Robert Philip. The title page bears the imprints of George Virtue in London and R. Martin and Co. in New York. The volume is bound in ornate dark brown leather with a decorative gilt-tooled front cover featuring a central cartouche of a pilgrim with a staff and pack, surrounded by six smaller vignettes depicting religious scenes. The spine features raised bands and gilt-tooled floral motifs. The second volume is Robert Bisset's The History of the Reign of George III to the Termination of the Late War, designated as Volume I of a two-volume set. This new edition was published in Albany, New York, by B. D. Packard at No. 71 State-Street in 1816. The book is bound in tan leather with a simple gilt-tooled border on the covers and decorative gilt bands on the spine. It includes an engraved frontispiece portrait of Earl Chatham. Accompanying the books is loose handwritten ephemera, including a multi-page narrative on lined paper regarding a dog named Little Black Bee and a smaller note dated June 22 1876.