Selichoth, First Edition (3 results)

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked blocked leather with raised bands and gilt compartments to spine. Gilt border and border in blind to front and rear boards. Inner gilt dentelles. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. All-edges-gilt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical description. : 204,204, 90 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: Added t. P. : Seder selihot mi-kol ha-shanah (romanized). Parallel Hebrew text and English translation; paged in duplicate. Subject: Selihot - Texts. Judaism - Liturgy - Texts. Notes: Dates 5626, 1866. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked blocked leather with raised bands and gilt compartments to spine. Gilt border and border in blind to front and rear boards. Inner gilt dentelles. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. All-edges-gilt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical description. : 204,204, 90 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: Added t. P. : Seder selihot mi-kol ha-shanah (romanized). Parallel Hebrew text and English translation; paged in duplicate. Subject: Selihot - Texts. Judaism - Liturgy - Texts. Notes: Dates 5626, 1866. 1 Kg.

First edition; 4to (20.5 x 13.5 cm); 114 leaves; pagination in Hebrew; leaves browned, wear and occasional small tears to margins of leaves. Half cloth marbled boards, hinges and corners restored. Scarce publication of Ashkenazic Penitential prayers for the whole year, one of the first Hebrew parayer books to be printed in London. In the 1770s, several Hebrew prayer books were printed in London for the first time by three different Jewish publishers: A. Alexander & Son, David Levi and a new Jewish publishing house, responsible for publishing this book, established by Isaac ben Yedidi, Moshe ben Gershon and Ya'akov ben Issaschar. Unlike Levi and Alexander this group printed books exclusively in Hebrew and Yiddish. Their first publication is said to have been the Toledoth Jacob, a work written by an immigrant Polish scholar named Jacob Eisenstadt. It was followed by a portly liturgy book with Yiddish translation published in 1770/1 in three quarto volumes. All three publications are considered to be very rare, with only a small number of surviving copies. We could not locate any copies in the ESTC. Vinograd, London 57; Roth B8:13.