The Haggadah. Executed by Arthur Szyk. Edited by Cecil Roth

Estimate: $2,500–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,200

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Beaconsfield Press

Place

London

Publication

1939

Description

ONE OF 125 COPIES (this copy out-of-series). Printed on Japanese vellum. Full- and half-page color halftone reproductions of compositions by Szyk, including numerous decorative initials, text ornaments and numerous small vignettes, text in Hebrew and English printed in black and sepia

references

Yaari 2285

summary

Apparently a library subscription copy. Both the British Library and Bodleian Library copies are similarly printed on Japanese vellum, unsigned, unnumbered and without the usual solander case szyk

Fore-edges slightly foxed, original blue levant morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, covers richly gilt, spine in seven gilt compartments, turn-ins gilt, doublures printed with an illustration by Szyk, 4to

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