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Lot 133
[Private Press] [Cranbrook Press] Group of 2 Titles
Sale 2101 - Books and Manuscripts
Sep 10, 2024 10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$800 - 1,200
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$762
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Lot Description
[Private Press] [Cranbrook Press] Group of 2 Titles

[Durer, Albrecht]
The Revelation of Saint John the Divine...
Detroit: Cranbrook Press, June 10, 1901. First and limited edition, #143/240 numbered copies. Illustrated with decorative woodcut boards, initials, head- and tail-pieces, as well as 16 full-page woodcuts after Albrecht Durer. Three-quarter vellum over brown paper-covered boards, brown calf spine label, stamped in gilt, small tear at lower fore-edge of front board; all edges trimmed; book-plate of Arthur G. Rippey on front paste-down; text completely unopened.

Together with:

The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
Detroit: Cranbrook Press, January 19, 1901. First and limited edition, #62/244 numbered copies. Illustrated with decorative woodcut borders, initials, and head- and tail-pieces. Bound as above; text largely unopened.

A fine set of two works from the Cranbrook Press.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.
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