Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book. This item is unavailable.Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book

Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book is a collection of twenty-four essays on various aspects of Hebrew book production in the 16th through 18th centuries. The subject matter encompasses little known printing-presses, makers of Hebrew books, and book arts. The print-shops were in such locations as Padua, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Verona, and the first presses in Livorno. Among the makers of Hebrew books are a peripatetic printer, a chief rabbi accused of plagiarism, a convert to Judaism, and a court Jew. Book arts address the titling of Hebrew books, dating by means of chronograms, printers' pressmarks, mirror-image monograms, and the development of the Talmudic page. The book is completed with miscellaneous but related articles on early Hebrew book sale catalogues, worker to book production ratio in an eighteenth century press, and an attempt to circumvent the Inquisition's ban on the printing of the Talmud in sixteenth Century Italy.

Marvin J. Heller is a specialist in Hebrew book history. His books include Printing the Talmud: A History of the Individual Treatises Printed from 1700 to 1750 and The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus, recipients, respectively, of the 1999 and 2004 bibliography award of the Association of Jewish Libraries.