[BUNYAN, John] The Life and Death of Mr. Badman presented to the world in a familiar dialogue between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive, London: for E. Johnston, MDCXVXXIV [1774], 12°, 19th-century speckled calf, corn sheaf crest gilt-stamped on upper cover (tightly resewn, joints cracked), ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

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[BUNYAN, John] The Life and Death of Mr. Badman presented to the world in a familiar dialogue between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive, London: for E. Johnston, MDCXVXXIV [1774], 12°, 19th-century speckled calf, corn sheaf crest gilt-stamped on upper cover (tightly resewn, joints cracked), ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

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First published in 1680, as a contrast to the first part of Pilgrim's Progress. Two issues of the second edition followed in 1685 and 1688, and there was a third edition in 1696. The only 18th century issues in addition to the present one, recorded in ESTC, are a Glasgow edition of 1772, and 2 Welsh language editions of 1731 and 1782. ESTCm records only one copy of the 1774 edition in the British Isles (BL), and 3 in North America.

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