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Lot 403

Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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$400 - 600
Price Realized
$390
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[Private Press] [Cranbrook Press] The Revelation of Saint John the Divine


Detroit: Cranbrook Press, 1898. 4to. Limited edition, number 95 of 240 copies. 16 full-page illustrations after engravings by Albrecht Durer. Original half vellum gilt, calf lettering-piece gilt, label slightly chipped; book-plate of Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Public Library

In 1900, Cranbrook co-founder George Booth established the Cranbrook Press in the attic of the Detroit Evening News building in Detroit. Wishing to gratify “a strong desire for work most agreeable to my tastes and inclinations that combined the beautiful with pleasant labor and inspired by the record of ancient printers and the modern endeavors of Wm. Morris” (McPharlin, The Cranbrook Press pp. 268-278).


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