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Scott, William Bell (illus.); Bunyan, John.
Part Second. The Pilgrim's Progress.
Publisher: A. Fullarton and Co., London, Edinburgh, and Dublin;
Date of Publication: 1860
Stock Code: 15673
First edition with these illustrations. Quarto, pp., 137, [1], plus tissue-guarded frontispiece, vignette title-page, and 25 illustrated plates after drawings by Scott. Collated and complete. Publisher’s binding of embossed leather over bevelled boards; spine on five raised bands; lettered in gilt to black and red goatskin spine labels; tooled in blind to compartments; blind fillets to raised bands; titled within circular scrollwork panel to upper board, further circular and rectangular panels executed with fillets and scrolls, 4 circular panels with eight-pointed stars at their centre to each board; rolls in blind to edges of boards; all edges dyed red and tooled dot-and-chain pattern; blind rolls to turn-ins; wine red end-papers. Gift inscription to one ‘Pringle’ from William Harbottle dated 1861. William Bell Scott (1811-1890) was a Scottish artist who spent much of his career as master of the government school of design in Newcastle. His best-known paintings are the friezes at Wallington Hall, Northumberland, which depict the history of the county. This book is illustrated after drawings in Scott’s Pre-Raphaelite style, and is bound according to the artist’s design. The binding of embossed leather is tooled in a Neo-Gothic style that pre-empts the Arts and Crafts bindings that would emerge in the later decades of Scott’s life. This edition was published in a series of two parts. The first, illustrated by the artist’s brother David Scott, was completed shortly before the artist died in 1849. William Bell Scott completed the project by illustrating this second part. Copies in the original trade binding, which was produced in at least three variant states (cloth, leather gilt and leather blind), can be difficult to find. £250.00