Abstractions Arrive: Having Been There All the Time. Essay by William H. Gass. Photographs by Michael Eastman, October 2009. Published as an iPad ebook, 2012.
This is the signature of Moses Gaster (1856-1939), who served as the hakham (rabbi) of the Spanish and Portuguese community in London. Gaster was ordained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and received his doctorate from the…
Bound by Louise Genest (binder's stamp) in full goatskin, laced-in with partially exposed spine; design includes cutout leather, gold leaf, inlays in book-cloth, tooled onlays in papers, patinated bronze leaf and wood veneer; titled in blind and gold…