Oct 14, 2010 - Sale 2225

Sale 2225 - Lot 315

Price Realized: $ 45,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 40,000
(SZYK, ARTHUR.) The Haggadah. Executed by Arthur Szyk. Edited by Cecil Roth. Hebrew and English text, with 14 full-page and numerous smaller illustrations and decorations in color reproducing paintings by Szyk, printed on vellum. 4to, 278x237 mm, original gilt-pictorial blue morocco with monochrome pictorial vellum doublures, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe after designs by Szyk; publisher's 3/4 morocco navy clamshell case. London: Beaconsfield Press, (1939)

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first szyk edition, the artist's best-known work and the most celebrated modern illustrated Haggadah. number 41 of 125 copies on vellum signed by szyk and roth.