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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...modern English presses, the most sought-for are the books of the Nonesuch Press, the Golden Cockerel and the Cresset Presses must also be mentioned. Cresset has just issued an excellent Pilgrim's Progress, although many will not like it. The book is beautiful, nevertheless,--possibly too traditionally conventional,--but in it the spirit of Bunyan comes back to us again, with his mourning garments and his somber musings embodied in the black binding, the blacker wood-cuts, and the heavy solid page...

Author: By J. A. Delacey., | Title: The Elements of Book Collecting | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

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