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Partial draft of section D of Book of Ephraim

Partial draft of section D of Book of Ephraim with notes

Partial draft of section D of Book of Ephraim

Partial draft of section D of Book of Ephraim

This volume is considered by many to be the finest colored plate sporting book of the nineteenth century. The text and illustrations give an imaginary biography of a typical English Master of Hounds. Alken drew and etched the thirty-six plates…

Notes for section D of Book of Ephraim

Partial draft of section D of Book of Ephraim

Partial draft of section D of Book of Ephraim

This is the bookplate of Elkan Nathan Adler (1861-1946), an Anglo-Jewish author, lawyer, historian, and bibliophile. He is famous for being the first European to enter the Cairo Genizah and bringing more than 25,000 fragments back to England.…

This is the bookplate of Dr. Philipp Bloch (1841-1923), a rabbi and prolific author on Jewish subjects.

He studied at the University of Breslau and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, where he was a student of Jacob Bernays (whose…