ADVERTISEMENT. VENERATION for the memory of Bunyan has stimulated the Editor's most anxious care to make this edition a correct fac simile of what the Author himself published. Most of the Notes are extracted from his other works, and throw a light upon those few passages which have proved difficult to young persons :-The Certificate which was to be carried beyond the grave to the gates of the Celestial City-the meaning of the Lions-the House Beautiful-the Giants-the fight with Apollyon -passage through Death's dark valley in the midst of the pilgrimage, and many other adventures easily understood by the experienced Christian. In the Notes the extracts are numbered in conformity with the only correct list of Bunyan's whole works, arranged in chronological order as they were published. This list will be found facing the first page of the Memoir: they amount to the amazing number of sixty-one distinct treatises, among which admirable and useful productions, it would indeed be difficult to mark those which are the most striking. This humble effort to promote the interests of the Redeemer's kingdom is dedicated to the youthful inquirer after the Wicket-gate and the Celestial City, by their devoted friend, GEORGE OFFOR. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, BY J. D. WATSON, ENGRAVED BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL. PORTRAIT OF BUNYAN (from an original Drawing by R. WHITE, in Frontispiece. THE MEMOIR. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS-PART I. PAGE |