Roth cecil introduction translation notes (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Vellum-bound book has bowed covers, light discoloration to front and back, minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. Number 207 of 500. A gorgeous volume, with facsimile illustrated Hebrew manuscript pages each on a separate page with English translation underneath.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very good to fine condition. Limited First edition. 171/228 hand-numbered on both limitation pages with lithographic signature in English and Hebrew part. Elephant Folio (17 3/16 x 13 5/8 x 2 3/8"). XXIII [I], 135pp. in 4-leaf signatures, as issued. Uncut. Original glassine over gilt-lettered, stiff parchment wrappers. The book is housed in its original gilt-lettered vellum clamshell box with protective foam cushion, silver gilt clasp and protective foam cushion. Contains lithographed, illumonated title page and frontispiece. Frontispiece with Ben Shahn signature in plate. The illuminated pages were reproduced by collotype and hand-stenciled in the workshop of MM. Hourdebaigt and Crampe under the direction of Trianon Press. Striking edition of the Haggadah, splendidly illustrated throughout with twelve full-page color colotype plates after Shahn's original watercolors, ten plates rendered in brown after Shawn drawings, two lithographs, one with gold leaf and pochoir additions (frontispiece), and the title page. The illuminated pages were reproduced in colotype and hand-stencil in the workshop of M.M. Hourdebaigt and Crampe, and masterfully calligraphed by Ben Shahn. The Haggadah tells the story of the Hebrew people during the scriptural time of their captivity in Egypt and their exodus to freedom. According to Ben Shahn, this Haggadah is the reflect of his own memories of the Passover Seder. 1/228 copies on watermarked pure rag Arches Verge paper of which this is No. 171. A total of 292 copies were printed. Text in English and Hebrew. Clamshell box lightly discolored along edges with minor chipping on back cover. Silver clasp tarnished. Box in overall very good, wrappers and interior in very good+ to fine condition.…