1860 JOHN BUNYAN. 44 Pencil Designs Iconic Edition of Pilgrim's Progress by Charles Bennett. Moravians Peter Jackson Esq

Peter Jackson Esq

Samuel Dana of Marblehead

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1860 JOHN BUNYAN. 44 Pencil Designs Iconic Edition of Pilgrim's Progress by Charles Bennett. Moravians Peter Jackson EsqA superb archive of 44 original pencil and ink preparatory drawings by Charles Bennett (1828 1867) for his landmark edition of Pilgrim's Progress issued by Longman of London in 1860. While there had been many previous illustrated editions of Pilgrim's Progress, Bennett's new and evocative suite of illustrations signaled an important shift in the way 19th century readers engaged Bunyan's immortal tale. Bennett had something of an obsession with the