Tactile Printing : First Books and Early Presses
Object ID:
1991.55
Title:
The Union Prayerbook for Jewish Worship, Part 2 [Braille]
Subtitle:
The High Holiday Prayerbook
Language:
Hebrew/English
Summary:
At top of title page [title transliterated]: "Seder tefilot Yisrael."
Contains: Yom Kippur Afternoon, Memorial, and Concluding Services.
"Complete Hebrew and English text. . . . Published in the Revised Hebrew Braille Code" --t.p.
The "first multiple edition for the blind of the complete Union Prayerbook for Jewish worship for the New Year and the Day of Atonement" --pub. forward.
Grade 2 braille, interpoint.
Black clothbound boards with gilt-stamped lettering on spine; braille label embossed at top left of front cover; spacers between signatures (pages); textblock stitched at top and bottom.
Museum holdings: volume 3 only.


Publication Date:
1961
Publication Place:
New York
Publisher:
Sadie and Arthur Lamport Foundation for the Jewish Braille Institute of America
Printer:
American Printing House for the Blind.
Printed Place:
Louisville, KY
Print Date:
[1961]
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