Song of Songs. Linocuts by Mordechai Beck. Designed and published by Izzy Pludwinski, Jerusalem, 2001.
Song of Songs, designed by calligrapher Izzy Pludwinski and accompanied by linocuts by Mordechai Beck. The text is printed in "Shir" font designed by Pludwinski in 1998 "to provide the world with a more rhythmic font of the Hebrew Alphabet for use in lyric texts". The volumes were bound with hand-made paper, made especially for this book by Esther Cohen and Nathan Keren and are inserted in a wooden box of fine quality. Enclosed is a booklet with translation of the text into English.
The book was printed in two editions limited to 510 copies (Gematria of "Shir"). This is copy no. 18.
[10], 35, [7] pp. 23.5X33 cm. Very good condition.