‘Walke on in Hope’: George Wither’s A Collection of Emblemes (1635) and the book as an intellectual and spiritual pilgrimage

Thirty-three years before Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, George Wither had the famous engraver William Marshall produce an intricate “Frontispiece” for his Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne (1635). The engraving teems with figures either emerging from a dark cave at the bottom, or at some st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pierre Le Duff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2023-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/12308