The Jerusalem Windows. Text and Notes by Jean Leymarie. Translated from the French by Elaine Desautels.

First edition in English, with two original Chagall lithographs bound in as issued. This colourful volume presents Chagall's stained-glass windows; 12 designs depicting the ancient tribes of Israel. The series was met with worldwide praise and recognized as a fine specimen of modern religious art. The windows were first exhibited in Paris in June 1961 and later at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, before they found a permanent home at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre in Jerusalem in February 1962. The Jerusalem Windows, published the same year as the French edition, Vitraux pour Jerusalem, remains the definitive work on the windows and is renowned for the richness of its illustrations. Chagall produced 2 original lithographs especially for this book and directed the printing of a further 36 lithographs of preparatory colour designs. Tall quarto. Illustrated throughout with 2 original lithographs and 36 colour preparatory lithographic designs, some of which are in 20 colours, all printed by Mourlot Fréres, with further black and white photographs and illustrations. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. With dust jacket. A couple of bumps, spot of wear to bottom edge of front board, foxing to endpapers, edges, and occasionally margins, abrasion and overprice sticker to front free endpaper; jacket clipped, edges nicked with a few short closed tears, light foxing to verso: a very good copy in like jacket.…