PARTIALLY GILT SILVER BINDING Tbilisi, Georgia, 1884.

Binding: Within beaded border, front and back embossed with foliate patterns surrounding central shield topped by crown. Front shield engraved with Hebrew title “Holiday Prayer-book for Shavu’oth;” below, cartouche engraved “Part 5.” Back shield embossed and chased with lion couchant within landscape and initial “Shin.” Spine engraved with title. Two hasps engraved with floral decoration. Marked inside edges. H: 225mm. Fitted With: Festival Prayerbook for Shavuoth. According to Sephardic rite. Piotrokow, 1886

Uncommon to find such a binding stemming from Russia, particularly one of a set of five. The decoration on the hasps is reminiscent of a binding in Stieglitz, no. 149, p. 374; the spine, worked in imitation of a leather binding, is similar to Stieglitz, no. 246, p. 370