Revelation of Saint John the Divine

Detroit: Cranbrook Press, 1901. Limited Edition of two hundred and forty copies. This is copy #9. Fine. 4to., 3/4 vellum. Text is the first English translation by William Tyndale (ca. 1525-26). Illustrated with woodcut initials, tailpieces, black-on-white borders throughout, and sixteen full-page woodcuts after Albrecht Dürer's "Apocalypse Series," first printed in Nuremberg in 1498 when the artist was twenty-seven. These scenes cemented Durer's fame and provided him with a source of income for life. The imaginative, animated woodcuts pushed book illustration from simple line drawings to sophisticated works of art. -- Externally the spine label obscured, vellum lightly dust soiled. Internal condition. --. Colophon: The End of the Book of Revelations of Saint John the Divine, from the earliest English version by William Tyndale, first printed in the year mdxxv. The engravings herein printed are reproduced from the wood-cutt illustrations made by Albert Durer in the year mccccxcvii. -- This books is now newly imprinted by me, George G. Booth, at the Cranbrook Press, lxv. Shelby street, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., and finished this 10th day of June in the year mdccccl. The whole number of copies printed is two hundred and forty, of which this is Number 9.