(JUDAICA.) Leeser, Isaac; editor. The Form of Prayers According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.Volume First: Daily Prayers. One of 6 volumes. viii pages, 204 leaves. 12mo, full morocco gilt, moderate wear, backstrip chipped; endpapers discolored, hinges split, a couple of gatherings coming loose, moderate foxing; all edges gilt; original owner W.P. Henriques' name gilt-stamped on rear board, later Cohn family inscriptions and family register on flyleaves. Philadelphia, 5606 [1846]
From the second edition of Leeser's six-volume Form of Prayers series, which was "the first comprehensive prayer book published in America"--Goldman 36 (note). In English and Hebrew. Rosenbach 590; Singerman 0939.
