JACOBS, JOSEPH and WOLF, LUCIEN. Catalogue of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition.

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: $750

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author

(JEWISH ART).

printer

F. Haes

Place

London

Publication

1888

Description

LIMITED EDITION (“Edition de Luxe”), this copy numbered: “225.” Photographic plates by Frank Haes. Broad margins.

summary

Monumental catalogue of this justifiably famous and pioneering exhibition. “It marked an epoch in the history of Jewish collecting and the development of the study of Jewish ritual art. (The) elaborate catalogue… is even today one of the most desirable works in this field.” C. Roth, Introduction: Catalogue of the Jewish Museum London (1974).

pp. 26, 214. Contemporary half-morocco, rubbed, boards detached. Sm. folio.

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