DAVID, MAGGID OF MAKOW. Zemir Aritzim [anti-Chassidic tract]

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art

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Lot 69

(DEINARD, EPHRAIM).

DAVID, MAGGID OF MAKOW. Zemir Aritzim [anti-Chassidic tract]

Edited with historical treatment by Ephraim Deinard. Additional title. Printed on multi-colored paper pp. xxviii; 76,(2). Brittle. Contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, rubbed, upper cover detached. Tall 16mo. (2 x 8 inches) Singerman 5539; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah p.20

Newark, New Jersey: Ben-Zion Nathanzohn 1899

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

The unusual typography of this edition is described by Elkan Nathan Adler as follows: “Mr. Deinard, who is not only a Hebrew author of eminence, but also a collector, has thought fit to publish this little book of seventy-six pages in an extraordinary shape about two inches wide by eight inches long, on leaves of the following colours: blue, brown, green, pink, yellow and vermilion orange, only two pages being white!” About Hebrew Manuscripts (republished, 1970) p.125