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ROTH, Cecil (Ed.).
The Haggadah.

A beautifully produced edition of the Arthur Szyk illustrated Haggadah. English & Hebrew title pages.

Published
Massadah and “Alumoth”. Jerusalem/Tel Aviv. 1962.
Plates
56
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
Massadah and “Alumoth”. Jerusalem/Tel Aviv. 1962.
Ref
1538

Quarto, Unpaginated (56 double-leaved pages). Blue faux velvet binding in gold-lined three-quarter over blue cloth clamshell box with blue faux velvet lining. Beveled edges. The front and rear of the book and the front of the clamshell box are decorated with a gold-stamped Kiddush Goblet motif, and gold-embossed decoration on the spine of the box. Inside of front and backboard illustrated with b/w reproduction of a drawing by Szyk. Colour frontispiece. Clamshell box in very good+, binding in near fine, interior in fine condition. Hardcover. The Haggadah is profusely illustrated with reproductions of exquisite illuminations and drawings by renowned illustrator Arthur Szyk. Szyk worked on these illustrations between 1932 and 1938, a time of great tragedy for the Jewish population. On Arthur Szyk, illustrator: “To call him the greatest illuminator since the sixteenth century is no flattery. The simple truth becomes manifest to any person who studies his work in the care it deserves. Alone perhaps among modern artists (for he is an artist above all), Szyk considers his art in terms of books and books in terms of his art. He does not illuminate a page, as many before him have attempted to do, considering it a unit in itself. He thinks of each page related to the text and the volume, integrating calligraphy, illumination, illustration, and narrative into one harmonious whole...”