The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Several Nations of the Known World

(PICART, BERNARD)

William Jackson

London

1733

Volume one only. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. With 12 engraved plates of Jewish ritual life. Text in English. title printed in red and black

Rubens 436-60

An invaluable pictorial record of Jewish life in 18th century Holland. One of the most striking illustrated books of the 18th-century. “Bernard Picart was the outstanding professional illustrator of the first third of the eighteenth century, an age during which the designs for the finest illustrated books were typically drawn by leading painters. He worked for the most part in the fading baroque tradition, but there are elements in his immense production which herald the new age.” G.N. Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book (1986) p.7