BY JOHN BUNYAN EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY THE REV. JOHN BROWN, B.A. OF BEDFORD AUTHOR OF 'THE LIFE OF BUNYAN,' ETC. London: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXXXVII. 1.25 INTRODUCTION. Of the sixty books John Bunyan gave to the world during his troubled life, the one most widely known after the Pilgrim's Progress is the Holy War. Macaulay has said that if the former did not exist, the latter would be the best allegory that ever was written. It first saw the light in 1682, that is, in the interval between the appearance of the first part of the Pilgrim's Progress in 1678, and of the second part in 1684. Unlike the story of Christian, which in the second and third editions received considerable enlargement, the Holy War remains unchanged from its first appearance. Indeed it is not at all certain that a second edition was called for during Bunyan's lifetime. For though there is in the Bodleian a copy purporting to be a second edition, and bearing date 1684, it is difficult to resist the impression that it is a pirated copy similar to those of which Nathaniel Ponder complained so bitterly in the case of the Pilgrim's Progress. For paper and typography are very much inferior to those of the first edition; some 3653 .13 5--18-38 £. 8. Allen. 845394 |