(JACOBS, JOSEPH and LUCIEN WOLF). Catalogue of (the) Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, 1887. Royal Albert Hall, And of Supplementary Exhibitions...

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Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

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(JACOBS, JOSEPH and LUCIEN WOLF). Catalogue of (the) Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, 1887. Royal Albert Hall, And of Supplementary Exhibitions...

Some 3,000 entries. Includes plans of rooms in Exhibition pp. xxvi, 208. Lightly browned. Original printed wrappers. 8vo W.L. Gross, Catalogue of Catalogues, in: Journal of Jewish Art, Vol. VI (1979), p.134, no.32; Unlisted by Mayer

London: William Clowes and Sons 1887

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $900

“One of the largest and most comprehensive exhibitions ever mounted. It had a profound effect on the English Jewish community and brought about the founding of the (Anglo-)Jewish Historical Society.” (Gross). Contains important bibliographies of manuscripts and books, as well as descriptions of portraits, seals and rings, coins and medals. Some of England’s most important collections were represented: Crawford, Sassoon, Strauss, Beth Hamidrash (Beth Din) and Jews’ College, as well as several smaller private and public collections