John Bunyan. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Bunyan, John; Sharrock, Roger [editor]. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. [11239] Blue cloth, no dust jacket, binding with light smudges, tight, 9 x 5 3/4 inches. Small white label on ffep probably covering a previous owners' name. xliii, [1], 183 clean pp; faint splatter spot on the title page. Good. Hardcover. A welcome critical edition of Bunyan's own account of his conversion, his battles with temptation, and his call to the ministry. John Bunyan (1628-1688), b. at Elstow, Bedfordshire, England. "After learning to read and write he followed his father's business of a travelling tinker. Led a dissolute life for some time, but was at length converted, and began to study the Holy Scriptures, in which he acquired a great knowledge. Served in the Parliament Army. Became a member of a Baptist congregation at Bedford, about 1655, to whom he occasionally preached, for which, at the Restoration, he was confined in Bedford for twelve years and a half. It