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Auction archive: Lot number 223

HAGGADAH – SZYK, Arthur (1894-1951), illustrator. The Haggadah . Edited by Cecil Roth. London: Beaconsfield Press, 1939.

Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 223

HAGGADAH – SZYK, Arthur (1894-1951), illustrator. The Haggadah . Edited by Cecil Roth. London: Beaconsfield Press, 1939.

Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

HAGGADAH – SZYK, Arthur (1894-1951), illustrator. The Haggadah . Edited by Cecil Roth. London: Beaconsfield Press, 1939. A very fine limited edition printed on vellum, no. 50 of 125 copies signed by Szyk and Roth for sale in the United States. Large quarto (280 x 238mm). 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 (mild sunning and shelfwear to case).

Auction archive: Lot number 223
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

HAGGADAH – SZYK, Arthur (1894-1951), illustrator. The Haggadah . Edited by Cecil Roth. London: Beaconsfield Press, 1939. A very fine limited edition printed on vellum, no. 50 of 125 copies signed by Szyk and Roth for sale in the United States. Large quarto (280 x 238mm). 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 (mild sunning and shelfwear to case).

Auction archive: Lot number 223
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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