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A set of 22 original pen-and-ink drawings to John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"
London: n .d. but 1844 or earlier]. 22 original pen-and-ink drawings on wove paper (220 x 320 mm. approx.), each tipped onto an individual light brown thin card mount (327 x 454 mm. approx.), an ink ruled single-line border around eacg drawing, with ink numbering and titling beneath in a single hand (?Selous’s). Unbound. Condition: some light spotting. [ With : a copy of the work containing the engravings made from these drawings] John BUNYAN. The Pilgrim’s Progress … Illustrated by engravings in outline, and wood-cuts, from drawings by Henry C. Selous. London: M.M. Holloway, 1844. Oblong folio (269 x 415 mm). 43 line-engraved plates (frontispiece with 22 plates numbered 1-22, and 20 plates numbered I-XX, the plate numbered 1 with engraver’s name Henry Moses otherwise unmarked), all after Selous, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, most after Selous. Original green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, the upper cover with an onlaid brown morocco title label, patterned endpapers. Condition : some light marginal browning or soiling; binding scuffed at extremities. the suite of original drawings form a very fine series . Selous’s work shows the immediate influence of John Flaxman and the German vogue for precise line illustration, and at a greater remove, John Martin (under whom Selous studied) and William Blake The artistsry is undeniable the craftsmanship spectacular, the philosophy behind the illsutrations seems to be in line with the Nazarenes search for honesty and spirituality in Christian art, and appears to anticpate the early work of the pre-Raphaelites. The dual numbering of the plates in the published work suggests that Selous produced two series of illustrations, which together illustrate most of the major scenes in Bunyan’s 17th-century classic.