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JOHN BUNYAN AND HIS PORTRAIT.—DID BUNYAN KNOW HOBBES?

By GEORGE OFFOR. (Hackney)

The best portrait of John Bunyan was drawn and engraved by White, to the *Holy War*, 1682. The original drawing, and a fine impression of the engraving, is preserved in the illustrated Grainger's *History of England*, in the print-room at the British Museum. It was copied in folio for Bunyan's *Works*. It has been recently copied for Mr. Bogue's elegant edition of the *Pilgrim*, and for the first complete edition of Bunyan's *Works*, now publishing by Messrs. Blackie and Sons, Glasgow. A fac-simile was engraved for an edition of the *Pilgrim*, by Mr. Pickering, 8vo. 1849. That the great allego…

Topics: Portraiture, Literature, Religious Writings, Nonconformism

Locations: British Museum, Glasgow, London, London Bridge, England