THE SZYK HAGGADAH, INSCRIBED (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; slight discoloration along edges of the free endleaves; publisher's 3/4 navy morocco folding case. London: Beaconsfield Press, (1939)
first szyk edition, the artist's best-known work and the most celebrated modern illustrated Haggadah.number 114 of 125 copies on vellum for sale in the British Empire, signed by szyk and roth. additionally inscribed and signed: "To Gertrude and Julius Kaufman very cordially Arthur Szyk New Canaan 1949."
