[Rarebooks] Shahn (Ben) THE HAGGADAH FOR PASSOVER

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Shahn (Ben) THE HAGGADAH FOR PASSOVER. (Trianon Press)

With a Translation, Introduction and Notes by Cecil Roth. Produced and  
Published by the Trianon Press, Paris & London.


This first edition of the Haggadah for Passover, copied and  
illustrated by Ben Shahn consists of 292 copies each bearing the  
artist’s signature and cypher on the frontispiece.

This is copy No. S of 16 copies numbered K to Z printed on Arches  
Grand Vélin pure rag paper. It includes an extra set of the colour  
plates on Auvergne hand-made paper; a set of plates left uncoloured,  
on Arches verge paper; three original guide-sheets and stencils; and  
two proof states of the lithograph frontispiece.

Unsewn as issued in lettered parchment wrappers with a glassine cover.  
The extra suites of colour plates, uncoloured plates and guide-sheets  
and stencils and the proofs of the frontispiece are contained in brown  
paper folios and housed in an oatmeal cloth portfolio with ties.  
Together in a gilt-lettered parchment-covered fall-down-back box with  
silver-gilt clasps. The box exhibits some natural discoloration and  
spotting, the guide-sheets in the folio with the stencils are  
discoloured from proximity with the metal, otherwise all the plates  
and text are bright. A very good copy.

Size: Box measures 430 x 345 mm or 16 x 13.5 inches

The reproduction in facsimile of the Artist’s original was done in  
Paris under his supervision. The illuminated pages were reproduced by  
collotype and hand-stencil in the workshop of MM. Hourdebaigt and  
Crampe under the direction of Trianon Press (France). Collotye was  
also used to reproduce the illustrations of ‘An Only Kid’. The  
frontispiece and title-page were drawn by the Artist and printed in  
original lithography from stones by the Imprimerie Mourlot, with  
additional colours applied by hand through stencils.

The letterpress was set in England: the Hebrew by Stephen Austin &  
Sons Ltd., Hertford; the English in Monotype Bembo by Spottiswooke,  
Ballantyne & Co. Ltd., London and Colchester. The printing of the  
letterpress pages and the assembly of the book were done in Paris by  
Imprimerie La Ruche. Adine, Paris and Barthelemy, Cachan, made the  
parchment-covered box in which the volume in presented, and the  
silver-gilt clasp was designed and hand-finished by Gerald Benney,  
London. The titling on the box and on the cover of the books was  
reproduced by serigraphy by Thierry, Paris.

The book was designed by the Artist with Arnold Fawcus, and produced  
and published in France by the Trianon Press, Château de Boissia,  
Clairvaux, Jura, and 125 avenue du Maine, Paris.


Trianon Press, Place: Paris & London 1966

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