(MISHNAH)

Libantea

Verona

1826

Apophtegmata Patrum- Pirkei Avoth [Ethics of the Fathers]. Hebrew with translation into Italian. Title within typographical border, printer’s device on title. Charming woodcut device of a basket of fruits, and an unusual woodcut tail-piece depicting a farmer driving his oxen, also with a bee’s hive and honey date palm, alluding to the Blessing of Milk and Honey

Vinograd, Verona 57

A rare survival of an old Hebrew printed book in sheets, showing the technique of half-sheet imposition (“work and turn”). On the technique of half-sheet imposition see K. Povey, On the Diagnosis of Half-Sheet Imposition in: The Library (1956) pp.269-72