ALBRECHT DÜRER | St. John Devouring the Book (B. 70; M., Holl. 172)

Woodcut, 1498, from The Apocalypse, a fairly good, though slightly unevenly printed impression, after the Latin text edition of 1511, on paper with an unidentified circular watermark, framed

With thread margins or trimmed to the borderline, the breaks in the border touched in with pen and ink, with a pen and ink inscription '10' next to the monogram, touches of blue ink above the lower right borderline with associated paper thinning and a minute perforation, three small repaired tears at left sheet edge (the longest measuring approx. 6mm), a minute nick at lower right sheet edge, a white spot in the unprinted area at upper left, the verso with glue remains at sheet edges, some residual mounting, tape along left sheet edge, framed. (With the usual horizontal drying fold.)
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