[CRANBROOK PRESS]. BOOTH, George G. (1864–1949). The Pleasu...
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[CRANBROOK PRESS]. BOOTH, George G. (1864–1949). The Pleasures of Planting and Other Thoughts. Detroit, MI: Cranbrook Press, 1902. 8vo. Title–page with full woodcut page–border, 6–line woodcut initial capitals. Original half parchment vellum, leather lettering–piece gilt, uncut, unopened; original plain dust jacket; original cloth–backed presentation box with printed spine label and cloth ties (light edgewear). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 92 of 210 copies. The Pleasures of Planting and Other Thoughts expresses Booth’s garden–philosophy two years before he bought a marshy farm and began developing it into the community he named Cranbrook, Michigan. An exceedingly rare item from a Detroit fine press that was only in existence for 3 years. 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; Ransom, Cranbrook Press 9.
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