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Verlag: Beaconsfield Press, London, 1940
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine condition. Arthur Szyk (illustrator). Lg. 4to. 114pp. 40/125 on vellum. Full blue levant morocco binding with gilt design, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Housed in three-quarter morocco, velvet lined box. One of 125 copies printed for sale in the United States. Signed by Arthur Szyk and the editor Cecil Roth on limitation page. Profusely illustrated with illuminations and drawings by Arthur Szyk, 48 of which are in color. Considered to be Szyk's magnus opus juxtaposing Passover narrative and Anti-Semitism during Nazi Germany. "While the miniature paintings depict historical scenes, in the text illuminations Szyk has combined figures in historical costume, characters from the east European ghetto, and young Jewish pioneers in Palestine. These figures illustrate a continuum, making the point that the struggle for freedom cannot be relegated to the past but is very much a current and contemporary concern" (Joseph P. Ansell, p. 93). Text in Hebrew and English, typefaces designed by Szyk. B. Box with light sunning at top of blue linen and lightly rubbed. Back cover linen with light water staining along gilt ruling near leather of spine.