Der Babylonische Talmud in Auswahl. Text by Jakob Fromer.

(BUDKO, JOSEPH).

Brandussche Verlags Buchhandlung

Berlin

1924

PRINTED ENTIRELY ON VELLUM. In this state One of only five numbered copies. A large-format version. Finely ornamented double-page frontispiece and title, five decorative divisional title pages and elaborately illuminated initials all elaborately executed by Joseph Budko. Sumptuously bound by O. Dorfner, Weimar. Bound in heavy dark blue morocco boards, both covers with six-layered gilt border of graduating width, upper cover with Star-of-David in six colors, spine titled in gilt. Fine condition.

Only five copies produced on vellum. This is copy number Three. In pristine condition. Bound in the publisher's unique binding. Along with Arthur Szyk’s Passover Hagadah and the Hebew Pentateuch issued on vellum by Soncino Gesellschaft, this exceptional volume ranks as one of the finest Jewish books produced. No copy of this vellum issue has ever appeared in book auction records.