New West End Synagogue. To the Rev. Simeon Singer…upon the completion of 21 years of the Synagogue's Existence

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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New West End Synagogue. To the Rev. Simeon Singer…upon the completion of 21 years of the Synagogue's Existence

Sprawling list of Congregants of the Synagogue. Black ink on vellum. Emerald silk wrappers, provided with matching blind-tooled crushed morocco, gilt extra, monogram in cartouche front center reads "SS." All within marbled slipcase ff. (6). Outer papers trace foxed. Sm folio

London: 27th January 1901 / 7th Shebat 5661

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

A beautifully bound manuscript from the members of the cathedral synagague of london. Simeon Singer (1848-1906) served as minister of the fashionable New West End Synagogue, whose membership included the aristocracy of English Jewry: Col. Albert Edward Goldsmid, Sir Samuel Montagu, Lord and Lady Rothschild, Herbert L. Samuel, etc. A note at bottom f.2r. reads: "Owing to the death of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, the presentation of this Address was postponed until the 10th of February 1901.”