Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 48,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
THE SZYK HAGGADAH (HAGGADAH.) 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 navy morocco folding case. London: Beaconsfield Press, (1939)

Additional Details

first szyk edition, the artist''s best-known work and the most celebrated modern illustrated Haggadah. number 123 of 125 copies on vellum for sale in the British Empire, signed by szyk and roth.