About this title: Featuring essays by Vivian B. Mann tracing the history of Torah ornaments, and Rafi Grafman analyzing the styles and development of the pieces themselves, "Crowning Glory" will prove invaluable for scholars and collectors of Judaica, as well as an indispensable reference work for anyone concerned with silver, Jewish decorative art, or with fine ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Jewish Museum /David R. Godine, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9781567920680ISBN:1567920683
Description: xv+398p., acknowledgements, using the catalogue, indexes, bibliography, b&w and color photos. A catalogi\ue of Torah scroll ornaments illustrated with over eight hundred duotone and thirty-three color plates. First edition in original cloth and illustrated dj. Very good. read more
Description: New. Hardcover with dustjacket. UNUSED & UNOPENED! Still in plastic wrap from publisher. Book is in Excellent Unused Condition. Book is completely intact, and being unused, inside pages are in excellent condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc. ) Books well packed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9781567920680ISBN:1567920683
Description: New/New. Folio-over 12"-15" tall 1567920683 Beautiful BRAND NEW copy still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. A grogeous book which showcases the finely wrought silver Torah ornaments housed in New York's Jewish Museum. Includes over 800 duotone illustrations and 33 color plates, as well as descriptions of almost a thousand specimens. 398 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R Godine
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9781567920680ISBN:1567920683
Description: New. 1567920683. Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 416 pp. With 728 ills. (33 col. ). 32 x 24 cm. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9781567920680ISBN:1567920683
Description: 1567920683. Fine/Fine, DJ. 9.5 X 12.25, 398, Pages. Color & b/w plates. FIRST EDITION. fine as new in new Dust jacket Over eight hundred illustrations of Torah ornaments are presented in this museum catalog, most in duotone photographs, with 33 color plates. Created to protect and celebrate the beauty and importance of the Torah, these largely silver pieces_crowns, finials, shields, pointers, staves, and cases1, 000 ornaments in the collection are pictured. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: The Jewish Museum, NY, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological..., New York
Date Published: 1996
Description: Very Good. Large quarto in dust jacket, xvi, 400 pp., some color photos, b/w photos throughout, Hallmarks, Pastiches and Dubious Objects, Index of Places of Origin, Index of Makers, Index of Person and Place Names in Inscriptions, Bibliography. Edited by Vivian B. Mann with an article also by Mann entitled, "Torah Ornaments before 1600. " With acknowledgments by Joan Rosenbaum. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher, Incorporated, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9781567920680ISBN:1567920683
Description: As New/As New. 9.5" x 12.25" Tall 1567920683 398 pages. Tight, unread copy. Synopsis--Describes the nearly one thousand Torah ornaments in the Jewish Museum's holding. Includes more than 800 hundred duotone illustrations and 33 full-color plates. read more
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