Lot 284
Maftir Yonah – Etchings by Mordechai Beck, Calligraphy by David Moss – Rochester, New York, 1993
Maftir Yonah, artistic edition, with etchings by Mordechai Beck and calligraphy by David Moss. Rochester, New York: Bet Alpha Editions, 1992. Hebrew.
Copy no. 21 of an edition of 70 copies (twenty additional copies were numbered separately), signed by Beck in the colophon. Stab-sewn paper wrappers.
"The hand-made Abaca paper was especially produced for the edition by Izhar Neumann at the Tut-Neyar Paper Mill, Zichron Ya'akov. The printing of the etchings was executed under the supervision of the artist at the Jerusalem Print Wirkshop by Sidon Rothenberg, who also printed the text on an 1886 Albion handpress. The Print Workshop is under the supervision of Arik Kilemnik."
Enclosed: a loose folded sheet with a short article by Beck, titled "Between Nineveh and Tarshish"; English colophon on verso.
Placed in a fine wooden box, decorated with an illustration of a whale.
[9] ff., 37.5 cm. Good condition.
