John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress
Carr reported having published one edition of The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan (1628-1688). Two editions have been seen, the second published in 1988. Carr designed the cover of the first edition.
This is Carr's entry in Welbourn's Dictionary:
John Bunyan, d. 1680 (sic), an Elstow (Beds) tinker's son and Civil War veteran, condemned to 12 years in Bedford Jail for preaching, improved the time by writing A Pilgrim's Progress, which, read by this publisher at the age of five years, turned him from a frivolous life of idleness to one of earnestly feverish industry.
(Last updated on 17/4/2021)
SBX-BUN1: First edition
Title: The Pilgrim's Progress
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: 197?
ISBN: None
Size: 128 x 97 mm
Pages: 16 pp
Staples: one
Binding: white shiny printed card covers
Paper: white
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: (J.L. Carr)
Internal illustrations: 7 woodcuts by Christopher Fiddes
Number in series: none given
Colophon: sun face
Telephone number: none given
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: 35
Printed by: G. Smith (Thrapston) Limited of Northamptonshire
Content: Poem by Rudyard Kipling; short biography; verses by Chaucer; credit to Christopher Fiddes; extracts from The Pilgrim's Progress
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Notes:
Rear and front covers
Inside rear cover
SBX-BUN2: Second edition
Title: none stated
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: May 1988
ISBN: None
Size: 129 x 92 mm
Pages: 16 pp
Staples: two
Binding: white glossy printed card covers
Paper: sepia
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: Christopher Fiddes?
Internal illustrations: 7 woodcuts by Christopher Fiddes
Number in series: 85
Colophon: none
Telephone number: none
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: 84 (82 printed, Lear and Lawrence added by hand)
Printed by: not stated
Content: Poem by Rudyard Kipling; short biography; verse by Chaucer; credit to Christopher Fiddes; extracts from The Pilgrim's Progress
.
Notes: Six small books were given the number 85. The other five are: Bacon, Chaucer, Donne, Frank, Hassall, Johnson, Little Book of Bookplates,
Rear and front covers
Inside rear cover