The Pilgrim's Progress. Most carefully collated with the edition containing the author's last additions and corrections. With explanatory notes, by William Mason. And a life of the author, by Josiah Conder Esq.

Fisher's ambitiously illustrated edition, containing scenes by Henry Melville and one, "Vanity Fair", by George Cruikshank, along with 12 vignettes in the text. This is Fisher's eighth edition, first published in 1836. Bunyan's allegorical Christian story was popular throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, with popular publishers vying to produce increasingly attractive trade editions. Octavo (213 x 133 mm), pp. lviii, 448. Engraved portrait frontispiece and title page, 12 plates, all with tissue guards, illustrations in text, historiated initials beginning parts. Contemporary dark purple morocco, spine lettered and richly tooled with flowers and abstract foliate motifs in gilt, boards with double fillet border with scrollwork cornerpieces in gilt, enclosing similar design in blind and double lozenge centrepiece in gilt, turn-ins with gilt roll, yellow gilt-patterned endpapers, edges gilt. Ink gift inscription dated 1846 on first blank. Spine sunned, some rubbing to extremities, minor split to head and foot of front inner hinge, a little foxing to plates, contents otherwise clean. A very good copy.…