New West End Synagogue. To the Rev. Simeon Singer…upon the completion of 21 years of the Synagogue's Existence

(ANGO-JUDAICA).

London

27th January 1901 / 7th Shebat 5661

Sprawling list of Congregants of the Synagogue. Black ink on vellum. Emerald silk wrappers, provided with matching blind-tooled crushed morocco, gilt extra, monogram in cartouche front center reads "SS." All within marbled slipcase

A beautifully bound manuscript from the members of the cathedral synagague of london. Simeon Singer (1848-1906) served as minister of the fashionable New West End Synagogue, whose membership included the aristocracy of English Jewry: Col. Albert Edward Goldsmid, Sir Samuel Montagu, Lord and Lady Rothschild, Herbert L. Samuel, etc. A note at bottom f.2r. reads: "Owing to the death of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, the presentation of this Address was postponed until the 10th of February 1901.”