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The holy war: : made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world, or, the losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul. / By Mr. John Bunyan, late minister of the gospel in Bedford, and author of The pilgrim's progress, ; complete in two parts.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1782 Bunyan
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bunyan, John, 1628-1688
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
- Bunyan, John.
- Soul.
- Spiritual warfare--Fiction.
- Spiritual warfare.
- Genre:
- Christian fiction.
- Publishers' advertisements -- 1782.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 343, [5], 32 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo in 4s)
- Edition:
- An entire new and correct edition, / illustrated with notes, explanatory, experimental, and practical, in the same manner as those lately added to The pilgrim's progress, by W. Mason. The whole now embellished with the most suberb [sic] and elegant set of copper plates, engraved by Morris, Pollard, Grainger, Goldar, &c. from the original designs of Dodd, Hamilton, and other celebrated artists.
- Other Title:
- Losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed, by permission of the former proprietors, for the editor; and now published by Alex. Hogg, no. 16, Paternoster-Row; and Vallance and Conder, in Cheapside,, 1782.
- Notes:
- Notes written by Samuel Adams. Cf. ESTC.
- Includes: An authentic account of the life and death of Mr. John Bunyan (as indicated in the directions to the binder on the verso of p. 343); with separate titlepage and register.
- Published in ten parts.
- Includes frontispiece and an additional XIV numbered leaves of engraved plates.
- Publisher's advertisements on p. 339-343.
- Also issued in the same year without the advertisements. Cf. ESTC.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006), from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).
- Athenaeum copy wanting "An authentic account ..."; description clipped from bookseller's catalog laid in.
- Cited in:
- ESTC (BL) T058561
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