PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim. With Shimushei Tehilim and prayers on behalf of the sick.

(BIBLE, Hebrew.

Yochanan Levi Rofé & Son

Amsterdam

1817

TWO COPIES OF THE WORK, PRINTED BY HALF-SHEET IMPOSITION ON ELEVEN FULL SHEETS (456x526mm). After cutting and folding, the book would be a duodecimo with a page size of approximately 132x85 mm. The sheets undivided and folded once. Despite some spotting, generally very clean.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 2460

A rare survival of an old Hebrew printed book in sheets showing the technique of half-sheet imposition (“work and turn”). This edition of the Psalms was printed on behalf of the Ets Hayyim Burial Society of the Portuguese Jews, Amsterdam. Both copies of the Pslams are certified on the verso of the title with a signature of representative of the Society. On the technique of half-sheet imposition see K. Povey, On the Diagnosis of half-sheet imposition in: The Library (1956) pp.269-72. With acknowledgment to Dr. A.K. Offenberg, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam who studied this text.