John Bunyan: His Life, Times and Work.

BROWN, John. [Woodrow Wilson; Charles A. Salmond; Alexander Stewart; James Stark; et al].

$2,500.00

Item Number: 121964

London: Wm. Ibister Limited, n.d..

Early edition of Reverend John Brown’s important biography of his predecessor and the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, English Puritan preacher John Bunyan. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “With all fraternal regards John Brown Bedford, England, August 10th 1899” and signed by his wife, “Ada H. Brown.” Additionally signed by Robert Christie, “Robert Christie Presbyterian Seminary Allegheny, Pa”; Woodrow Wilson, “Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, New Jersey”; Alexander Stewart “Alexander Stewart D.D. St. Mary’s College- St. Andrews- Scotland-“; Charles A. Salmond, “Charles A. Salmond. South Morningside Free Church, Edinburgh-“; James Stark, “James Stark Aberdeen”; and Samuel Parry, “Samuel Parry Pluckemin N.J.” With an additional autograph signed by Rev. John Brown tipped in on Yale University Letterhead dated Oct. 19th 1899and addressed to Rev. Dr. Farrar, a schedule of Brown’s Lectures in Yale Divinity School and several clippings related to Bunyan and Brown’s work. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A unique collection of signatures.

Best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, English writer and Puritan preacher John Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles throughout the course of his lifetime, many of them expanded sermons. Bunyan after joining the Bedford Meeting, a nonconformist group in Bedford and soon became a preacher. After the restoration of the monarch, when the freedom of nonconformists was curtailed, Bunyan was arrested and spent the next twelve years in jail as he refused to give up preaching. During this time he wrote a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and began work on The Pilgrim's Progress, which was not published until some years after his release.