b'196 (THEATER). Cumberland, Richard. The Jew: A Comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane.FIRST EDITION.pp. (4), 75, (1). Stained and browned, small clear tear on p.2. Modern gilt-ruled mottled calf. 8vo. London, C. Dilly, 1794. $500 - $700 Cumberlandtried to reverse the image of the Jew created by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice In the person of Sheva, Cumberland brought a new kind of Jew to the English stage. Sheva, like Shylock, is a usurer, hustled and insulted by the gentlemen of the townBut by the end of the play the audience is made to realize that not one of the unattering epithets applies to himIn spite of touches of melodrama and sentimentality, The Jew did well on stage and had an inuence on the more serious drama of the period. EJ Vol. V, cols. 1169-70.197 TUVIAH BEN ELIEZER. Pesikta Zutratha [Midrash Lekach Tov to the Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy].FIRST EDITION.Scattered marginalia. ff. 93. Some staining, nal leaves remargined. Previous owners marks. Modern calf. Folio. [Vinograd, Venice, 269.] Venice, Daniel Bomberg, 1546. $500 - $700 Inscription on verso of title praises an interpretation in this work written by a son of R. Yitzchak Atzban. Members of this Moroccan rabbinic family served in Meknes and Fez; the most prominent was R. Mordechai b. Yitzchak Atzban (author of Zoveach Todah). See D. Sutton, Aleppo, City of Scholars (2005) pp. 141-42.The Midrash Lekach Tov was composed by Tuviah ben Eliezer in the 11th century and comments on the Bible in both the exegetical and Aggadic style. He frequently quotes and reworks Midrashim from earlier Rabbinic collections. The commentary on the Books of Genesis and Exodus went unpublished until they were rediscovered by Solomon Buber in 1884.198 VALERIO, SAMUEL. Sefer Yad HaMelech [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text].FIRST EDITION.Title set within architectural arch. Signed by censors at end. ff. 104. Some stains, previous owners marks, trimmed. Recent crushed morocco with gilt dentelles. 8vo. [Vinograd, Venice 690.] Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1586. $600 - $900 Valerio was a physician who lived in the Grecian Archipelago in the second half of the 16th century. The present commentary was completed in Corfu in 1579.94'