Hebrew. PENTATEUCH). Chamishah Chumshei Torah

(BIBLE

Officina Serpentis for the Soncino Gesellschaft

Berlin

1931-33

ONE OF 850 COPIES on Van Gelder hand-laid paper. Woodcut decorative title page in blue, brown and black, initial word of each of the Five Books surrounded by arabesques and printed in brown and black, few lines and words printed in red

“RANKS AMONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HEBREW BOOKS EVER PRINTED.” The most ambitious undertaking of the Soncino Gesellschaft der Freunde des juedischen Buches. See A.J. Karp, Library of Congress Catalogue pp. 31-34 (illustrated); L. Avrin, The Art of the Hebrew Book in the Twentieth Century, in: New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) p.135 (illustrated).