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(ASHENDENE PRESS.) The Boke off the Revelacion off Sanct Jhon the Devine Done into Englysshe by William Tyndale. Initials and chapter headings printed in red, printer's device on colophon. 8vo, original limp vellum dyed dark green, gilt-lettered spine, edges, spine ends, and tips a bit rubbed with mild loss of surface color; book label of Crosby Gaige at front and of Lord Wardington at rear; custom plain green cloth clamshell box with gilt spine title. (London, 1901)
number 49 of only 54 copies. An important book for the Ashendene Press, considered among the best of English private presses, Revelacion represented many "firsts" for the press: it was the first volume to use red ink in the text, to be printed in two columns, to contain the printer's mark B2, to invite subscribers at a price of 2 guineas, to be bound by Leighton, and to be printed in England. Alternately, it was also the last book in the early slender binding series, and the last before a new typeface was introduced. Hornby 12, 42; Tomkinson 4; Franklin pages 31, 235.
