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Hardcover, folio size volume bound in blue cloth boldly lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust-jacket and matching blue cloth covered slipcase, lettered in gold and with small color pastedown on front cover. 208 pages. Text includes introduction, translations and transcriptions by various scholars. Endmatter comprises an Index of the Poems; Index of Poets and Bibliography. Following these are 100 facsimile pages in full color. Fabric ribbon marker bound-in. First American edition. “An illuminated Passover compendium from mid-fourteenth-century Catalonia in the collections of the British Library, with a cycle of poems, commentary and biblical readings.” [half-title]. Single sheet publisher’s broadside laid-in loose. No previous ownership marks. Book and dust-jacket are clean, fresh, unmarked and as new. Slipcase shows a single skratch/scuff on upper cover, approximately 4.25 inches long, else fine. A beautifully produced, quality book. No international shipping available for this title due to size and weight. Domestic Priority mail will require additional postage, charged at actual cost.