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Auction archive: Lot number 185

HAGGADAH] SZYK, Arthur (1894-1951, illustrator) The Haggada...

Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$20,000
Auction archive: Lot number 185

HAGGADAH] SZYK, Arthur (1894-1951, illustrator) The Haggada...

Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$20,000
Beschreibung:

HAGGADAH]. SZYK, Arthur (1894-1951, illustrator). The Haggadah. Edited by Cecil Roth. London: Beaconsfield Press, 1939.
HAGGADAH]. SZYK, Arthur (1894-1951, illustrator). The Haggadah. Edited by Cecil Roth. London: Beaconsfield Press, 1939. Limited edition, one of 125 vellum copies signed by Szyk and Roth (this copy unnumbered) for sale in the United States. Large 4to (280 x 237 mm). Text in Hebrew and English, printed in variously colored inks; 14 full-page and numerous smaller color halftone reproductions of Szyk's drawings including decorative initials, vignettes and border decorations. Original blue crushed morocco elaborately gilt, covers tooled with image of a Hebrew prophet after Szyk, spine gilt in 7 compartments, gilt lettered in two, turn-ins gilt, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, silk doublures printed with a monochromatic illustration of Moses supporting the Ten Commandments; original three-quarter morocco folding case.

Auction archive: Lot number 185
Auction:
Datum:
14 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

HAGGADAH]. SZYK, Arthur (1894-1951, illustrator). The Haggadah. Edited by Cecil Roth. London: Beaconsfield Press, 1939.
HAGGADAH]. SZYK, Arthur (1894-1951, illustrator). The Haggadah. Edited by Cecil Roth. London: Beaconsfield Press, 1939. Limited edition, one of 125 vellum copies signed by Szyk and Roth (this copy unnumbered) for sale in the United States. Large 4to (280 x 237 mm). Text in Hebrew and English, printed in variously colored inks; 14 full-page and numerous smaller color halftone reproductions of Szyk's drawings including decorative initials, vignettes and border decorations. Original blue crushed morocco elaborately gilt, covers tooled with image of a Hebrew prophet after Szyk, spine gilt in 7 compartments, gilt lettered in two, turn-ins gilt, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, silk doublures printed with a monochromatic illustration of Moses supporting the Ten Commandments; original three-quarter morocco folding case.

Auction archive: Lot number 185
Auction:
Datum:
14 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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