Physical Description:

52 ff., quarto, 270:208mm., extra wide margins, light age, damp, food & wine staining. A very good copy bound, in recent marbled paper over boards, quarter leather spine, rubbed.

Blue tint paper - The first recorded mention of blue paper appeared in northern Italy in the year 1389. Only around one hundred years later, blue paper started to be used by Italian artists, and it's popularity for various purposes has continued over the following centuries. Blue paper provided a nuanced mid-tone which allowed the creation of strong light and dark contrasts, an effect much sought after by draftsmen. The first book printed on blue paper was published in 1514 in Venice by Aldus Manutius. Throughout the 16th century, blue papers occur in Venetian special book editions. Also, blue papers have been used as book covers, as end papers, and as decorative interleaving papers.

Detailed Description:   

With commentaries of Alsheich, Gevurot ha-Shem, Ollelot Ephraim, instructions in Judeo-German. Cooper plate engravings copied from the Amsterdam 1781 edition.