Don Quixote Visits a Printing Pess, Miguel de Cervantes. Even Hoshen publishing house, 2011.
This book was printed in honor of the 60th birthday of Uzi Agassi, the founder of Even Hoshen, and is the first of the "Tarshish" series. Printed in sixty signed and numbered copies – sixty being the age of Uzi Agassi (not all of the copies have been printed). The copy presented here is no. 18.
The text is derived from chapter 72 of the second volume of "Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha" by Cervantes, translated by Nathan (Agmon) Bistritzki (Sifiyat HaPo'alim, 1958). Accompanied by two original etchings by Zvika Lachman created especially for this book (the two etchings are signed and numbered 18/60).
Manual typesetting and printed on Hahnemühle paper, pre-soaked, using a rare and unknown font – " Hebräische" cast by S&G in Leipzig, Germany. All of the typesetting, printing and binding was done by Uzi's son, book master Ido Agassi in his workshop – 'the kingdom' – a workshop for letterpress printing and artistic binding.
On one of the leaves appears a woodcut portraying workers in a printing press; the woodcut was printed from the original plate found in a long forgotten drawer.
Housed in a box covered in a Bordeaux-colored cloth, with a sword-shaped clasp (commemorating Agassi's collection of swords), with the inscription "Toledo". [8] leaves + two etchings, 25.5 cm.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.