December 1855: Just Published – Diorama of The Pilgrim’s Progress – Glasgow Polytechnic Institution

An advertisement on page three of The Glasgow Courier, on Saturday the 29th of December, 1855, reads:

 

“DIORAMA OF THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS.

Just Published,

In small 4to, handsomely bound in extra cloth gilt, gilt edges,

price 17s 6d; or in calf antique, price 30s.

THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, with Forty Original Illustrations

by the late DAVID SCOTT, R.S.A., &c., a Vignette Title, and a

splendid Portrait of Bunyan.

This magnificent Work contains all the original characteristic

Illustrations of David Scott, from which (by permission of the

publishers) the DIORAMA at the GLASGOW POLYTECHNIC

INSTITUTION has been taken.

A. FULLARTON & CO., 40, Union Street, Glasgow;

and all Booksellers.”

 

 

The British Newspaper Archive.

 

 

George Fairfull-Smith, July 2023.