The Hagadah Shel Pesach Containing the Ceremonies and Thanksgiving, Which are Used and read by all Families in every House of the Israelites on the Two first Nights of Passover. Translated by A. Alexander

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author

(HAGADAH).

printer

L. Alexander

Place

London

Publication

1787

Description

Second Edition. Publisher’s slip relating to copyright tipped in. Verso of title signed Samuel Joseph, London 1787

references

Yudlov 326; Yaari 216; Lehman, Anglo-Jewish Hagadot (in Cecil Roth Festchriften) no.2a; cf. Yerushalmi 74

summary

Second edition of the Alexander Hagadah. The earlier editon of 1770 was the first Hagadah to be printed in English. See Kestenbaum & Company, Fine Judaica 3rd June 1997 lot 261

pp.8,ff.9-31,(4). Most leaves expertly recornered or remargined with occasional loss of few letters, stained in places. Modern calf. 8vo

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