Jewish Iconography Supplementary Volume by Rubens Alfred (6 results)

Soft Cover. 1st Edition. 29.5 x 21 cm., 128 pp. The pictures are mostly b/w, with 13 in colour. Maroon card covers with gilt and white lettering on the spine and front, and with a colour portrait on the front. CONDITION. VG+. The pages are clean and tight. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. No marks of ownership.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited. Two books (complete) slipcased. The ISBN and publication details refer to the main title: 277 pages (complete). The second book: "A Jewish Iconography Supplementary Volume" (ISBN: 09079740005), pub: Nonpareil, 1982, softcover (128 pages). Slipcase is sturdy, sound. It has wear and scuffing and light marking. Wood reinforcements within the casing. It is fit. The main volume: SIGNED by Alfred Rubens on the half-title page. Numbered 91 of a limited edition of 650 copies. Crushed-strawberry cloth covered boards with stamped gilt publisher's colophon and borders. The boards have shelving wear about the edges. They are otherwise elegant and healthy. Marbled end papers. The contents are smart, clean, clear, conscientious, proud. The second volume has scuffing, wear, creasing and light handling marks. They are still pleasingly attractive. The inside front cover has handling marks. The page trims have very light foxing streaks. There is evidence of usage. Nonetheless, the pages are bright, clean, clear, generous, vivacious. A satisfying set. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

A4 Paperback. Scuffed. Owners Inscription. Good.

A4 Paperback. Protected Cover. Good.

paper wrappers. 1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, folio, 128 pages. Multiple illustrations on ever page, many in color. 31 cm. Supplement to Ruben's massiver Jewish Iconography (Revised 1981), which includes a long list of important artists, traditions and works. Reviewing an earlier edition of Jewish Iconography (subsumed into the 1981 production), Alfred Werner noted, "These historically as well as artistically invaluable prints might never been collected and catalogued but for Alfred Rubens.he began to ferret them out of bookstores, printshops, and the dusty corners of Europe and the United States, his hobby then turning into a life-work," the publications "he compiled are painstakingly accurate catalogues raisonnés of his own collection, plus a number of items to be found in the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York and elsewhere.A Jewish Iconography ranges over all of Europe from Amsterdam to Constantinople, and even includes material from Alexandria, Cairo, Damascus, and Jerusalem. And also the number of illustrations is much greater, offering a more valuable and imposing panorama. .A Jewish Iconography is more than catalogue. In part, for one thing, its alphabetical listing of the portraits of Jewish personalities constitutes a kind of Jewish biographical dictionary. Most of the likenesses are of people from Continental Europe; these include Lassalle, the Mendelssohns, Jacob Meyerbeer, Joseph Suess Oppenheimer, the Rothschilds, Sabbatai Zevi, and Spinoza. Among the Americans we find Mordecai Manuel Noah. Secondly, the bookhas an intrinsic artistic appeal thanks to its many woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs. Many of the artists represented in it are unimportant, but there are at least a few samples of work by such outstanding men as Chodowiecki (Germany); Dalle Piani (Italy); the Cruikshanks, Hogarth, and Rowlandson in England; Picart, Ruysdael, and the great Rembrandt in Holland. Of the Jewish artists, the most significant are Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Edouard Moise, and Simeon Solomon. Quite a few of the tradecards, watch papers, and ornamental bill-heads are the work of generally anonymous Jewish engraversengraving, like embroidering, being an art in which the pre-Emancipation Jews excelled and having an ultimately Oriental origin. Thirdly, the volume is a form of Kulturgeschichte in its depiction, both in the reproductions and in the texts describing prints not reproduced, of bygone customs and costumes. Mr. Rubens devotes a good deal of space to artistically inferior but historically fascinating little prints, many of them caricatures, that enjoyed an enormous vogue, especially in the 18th century. The general populace did not then read newspapers, many people were barely literate, and it remained for cartoonists, political and otherwise, to give an account of the most sensational, most picturesque, though not necessarily most edifying characters and episodes of the day. Thus there are more pictures of mountebanks and scoundrels, adventurers and crackpots, than of saintly men and women. These cheap and generally crude prints, which were sold in the streets for a few pennies, offer an exciting social history covering the period, in England, from Henry VIII to Queen Victoria. We are taken to Constantinople, where in 1528 a Jew, after being converted to Christianity, is martyred by the Turks; to North Africa, where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive dress long after their co-religionists shed it in other parts of the world; to the Crimea, with the distinctive synagogues and burial grounds of the Karaite sect; to Bordeaux, where Jews cried their wares through the streets, "Vieux habits, vieux galons!" or "Quelque chose à vendre!" In Frankfort-on-Main, the plundering of the ghetto follows the riots instigated by Fettmilch, the Haman of 1614; in Hamburg, the publication of Dr. Jenner's revolutionary work on vaccination prompts a hostile cartoonist to lampoon the English physician and his German tr.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to near fine condition. Limited Revised Edition. Folio. xxxi (i), 277, 128pp. Original gilt-stamped green goatskin with gilt publisher's device and frame on cover, gilt lettering, publisher's device and ruling on spine, housed in green goatskin clamshell box with gilt lettering and ruling and velvet lining inside. Decorative endpapers. #203 of 53 copies of Nos. 151203 in green goatskin binding with half-title signed by Alfred Rubens. Contains printed paper label with exact numeration of the three bindings pasted to limitation page. Pictorial title page printed in red and black lettering with publisher's device. The supplementary volume is bound in at rear. An additional 128 page supplementary volume in pictorial red wrappers with gilt and white lettering on front cover and spine laid in. Extensive lexicon of important Jewish artists, traditions and works, illustrated throughout with 2467 miniature b/w photographic reproductions, referencing the numbers of the two previous publications in margins. The two previous publications from 1935 and 1954 contain 503 numbered entries in The Anglo-Jewish Portraits and the title A Jewish Iconography 1244 entries. The book was compiled by Alfred Rubens, the renowned curator and collector of Jewish art. The supplementary volumes, bound in and the additional copy, also profusely illustrated with b/w and color photographic reproductions. Clamshell box with some wear along edges and joints at spine, as well as some abbrasions. Inteior of box with some light wear. Additional paperback copy with minor rubbing and creasing to wrappers. Bound volume with a few minor scratches to covers. Clamshell box in overall good, softcover volume and bound volume in very good+ condition overall.