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The Song of Songs
by Raban, Ze-ev - illustrator
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About This Item
Jerusalem: Hasafer Publishing house, 1923. First edition illustrated by Raban, limited to 500 copies, this copy unnumbered. Folio, unpaginated, [26] colored plates which include the text in Hebrew, mounted opposite the calligraphic text translated to English. Colorful, decorated endpapers with later restoration and reinforcement around edges. Publisher's drab cloth decorated in gilt and silver had been sympathetically rebacked. Boards worn along edges and at corners, toning to pages but plates beautifully preserved with rice papers intact. Manuscript poem inscription from previous owner dated 1926 on front fly (right to left), else clean. A very good, somewhat restored copy.
Stunning production from Ze'ev Raban (born Wolf Rawicki, 1890-1970), the leading artist of the Bezalel school, which blended traditional Persian art with Jugendstil and Art Nouveau in depicting Biblical and Zionist themes.
Stunning production from Ze'ev Raban (born Wolf Rawicki, 1890-1970), the leading artist of the Bezalel school, which blended traditional Persian art with Jugendstil and Art Nouveau in depicting Biblical and Zionist themes.
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- Peruse the Stacks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5981
- Title
- The Song of Songs
- Author
- Raban, Ze-ev - illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Folio, unpaginated, [26] colored plates which include the text in Hebrew, mounted opposite the calligraphic text translated to E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition illustrated by Raban, limited to 500 copies, this
- Publisher
- Hasafer Publishing house
- Place of Publication
- Jerusalem
- Date Published
- 1923
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rebacked
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- First Edition
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
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