The Szyk Haggadah

Language
Hebrew, English. Text of Haggadah in Hebrew with English translation; commentary in English.
Edition
[Premier edition].
Publication
Burlingame, California : Historicana, [2008]
Copyright notice
© 20082
Physical description
2 volumes (95 pages, 247 pages) : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 videodisc (sound, color, 4 3/4 in.), 12 plates, box (33 cm)

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BM674.643 .S984 2008 F In-library use

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Creators/Contributors

Contributor
Szyk, Arthur, 1894-1951, artist.
Sherwin, Byron L. translator.
Ungar, Irvin publisher.
Reynolds, Sage, papermaker.
Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH papermaker.

Contents/Summary

Contents
  • [V. 1] The Haggadah / [executed by] Arthur Szyk ; with translation and commentary by Byron L. Sherwin
  • [v. 2] Freedom illuminated / edited by Byron L. Sherwin and Irvin Ungar.

Bibliographic information

Publication date
2008
Copyright date
2008
Title Variation
Haggadah
Note
Hebrew pages and artwork originally published by Beaconsfield Press, London, 1940.
New English translation (in black) by Rabbi Byron L. Sherwin, with his commentary (in blue).
In red cloth-covered clamshell box by John Demerritt Bookbinding with Freedom illuminated : understanding the Szyk Haggadah; a videodisc titled In every generation : remaking the Szyk Haggadah (documentary of how this edition of Haggadah was created); and a magnifying glass in a separate box, as issued.
Quarter-bound in blue leather, with red silk-rayon cloth-covered boards. Book and box stamped in 22-carat gold.
Note
Special Collections copy 1: "The typefaces used for the black Haggadah text are Ehrhardt ... The titling type is ... Penumbra. ... The book was printed by Rick De Coyte at Silicon Galelry Fione Art Prints in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using an ultra-high resolution, eight-color ink jet process on equipment manufactured by Epson. This book is the first edition of this scale ever printed in this manner ... The bindings and boxes were designed by Paul Vogel at Vogel Bindery in East Hampton, New York, and Irene Morris. The bindings for the Haggadah were executed by Paul Vogel. The paste papers were hand-painted by Sage Reynolds ... The bindings for the companion volume were done by Coriander Reisbord in El Cerrito, California. The boxes were created by John Demerritt Bookbinding in Emeryville, California. ... Three hundred numbered copies of the Szyk Haggadah are printed on special Hahnemühle paper, of which eighty-five copies in the Premier binding, accompanied by a portfolio of twelve individual prints, are numbered 1-85; and two-hundred-fifteen copies in the Deluxe binding are numbered 86-300. An additional eighteen copies are hors de commerce. This book is Number 22 to which I, as Publisher, affix my signature: Irvin Ungar"-Volume 1, colophon.
Related Work
Szyk Haggadah.
Contains (work): Haggadah (Manuscript Szyk Haggadah)
Contains (expression): Haggadah (Manuscript Szyk Haggadah). English.
Contains (work): Freedom illuminated.
Contains (work): Haggadah (Children's services, Silberman)
ISBN
9780979954603 (vol. 1)
0979954606 (vol. 1)
9780979954627 (vol. 2 blue cloth)
0979954622 (vol. 2 blue cloth)

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