1931 Nk1 ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: O.R.70.dd.9
Curwen Press: B36

Title page

[A]3r

The Zohar | TRANSLATED BY HARRY SPERLING | AND MAURICE SIMON | FIVE VOLUMES | I | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | DR. J. ABELSON | LONDON | THE SONCINO PRESS | 5 Gower Street | 1931

Imprint

[A]3v

Limitation

[A]1v

This edition of The Zohar is limited to | 1250 sets of five volumes, Volume I being | numbered 1 to 1250, and 48 special sets | printed on Barcham Green's hand-made | paper, Volume 1 of which is signed by | the translators and numbered I to XLVII | This is number [space for serial number]

Collation

[A]8 B-Z8 2A-2B8 2C10.

Pagination

[i-ix] x-xxvii [xviii-xxix] xxx [1-3] 4-62 [63] 64-191 [192] 193-259 [260] 261-320 [321] 322-76 [377-9] 380-5 [386-7] 388-90.

Technical description

Medium 8o: 9" × 5¾", trimmed. white laid, no mark; 12pt. Imprint; casing, dark green buckram; printed dust-jacket.

Notes

The Zohar is the classical text of the Kabbalah, written circa 1280 C.E. in Aramaic; Simon 1956 p.100-102 comments on its production.

See Simon 1973 p.252: Catalogue raisonné details ordinary edition in full buckram, 'also 35 copies, on hand-made paper, bound full leather'; note the apparent discrepancy with the number in the Limitation.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1931 Nk1a special edition

Copies examined

British Library: O.R.70.dd.9

Title page

As Nk1.

Collation and pagination

As Nk1.

Technical description

Medium 8o: 9 ¼"× 5¾", top edge only trimmed and gilt,white wove, F J Head Hand Made; 12pt. Imprint; sewn on 3 cords and bound full blue morocco leather with 4 spine bands; green leather spine labels in 2nd panels, tooled in gold: ‘THE | ZOHAR’, and volume number appears in 4th panels of spine.

Notes

In 1963 handlist originally numbered Nka.

The B.L. copy is no.XXXI of 48 copies on hand-made paper.

Vols. I-II bound by Wood; vols.IV-V by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Vol. III binding is un-signed.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1932 Nk2 ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: O.R.70.dd.9
Curwen Press: B36

Title page

[A]2r

The Zohar | TRANSLATED BY HARRY SPERLING | AND MAURICE SIMON | FIVE VOLUMES | II | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | DR. J. ABELSON | FIVE VOLUMES | II | LONDON | 1932

Imprint

[A]2v

Collation

[A]8 B-Z8 2A-2B8 2C6.

Pagination

[11] 4-35 [36] 37-73 [74] 75-133 [134] 135-85 [186] 187-234 [235] 236-78 [279] 280-300 [301] 302-93 [394-7] 398-9 [400-1] 402-4.

Technical description

As Nk1 but casing, spine unbleached linen, boards patterned paper Kzb no.29, label lettered in pen-and-ink: ‘Zohar | Vol. II’; printed dust-jacket.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1932 Nk2a special edition

Copies examined

British Library: O.R.70.dd.9
Curwen Press: B36

Title page

As Nk2.

Collation and pagination

As Nk2.

Technical description

As Nk1a but for changed volume number.

Notes

In 1963 handlist originally numbered Nka.

The B.L. copy is no.XXXI of 48 copies on hand-made paper.

Vols. I-II bound by Wood.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1933 Nk3 ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: O.R.70.dd.9
Curwen Press: B36

Title page

[A]2r

The Zohar | TRANSLATED BY HARRY SPERLING | MAURICE SIMON | AND DR. PAUL P. LEVERTOFF | FIVE VOLUMES | III | . . . | LONDON | 1933

Imprint

[A]2v

Collation

[A]8 B-Z8 2A-2C8 2D6.

Pagination

[11] 4-73 [74] 75-103 [104] 105-34 [135] 136-208 [209] 210-81 [282] 283-356 [357] 358-415 [416-9] 420.

Technical description

As Nk1 but casing, spine unbleached linen, boards patterned paper Kzb no.29, label lettered in pen-and-ink: ‘Zohar | Vol. III’; printed dust-jacket.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1933 Nk3a special edition

Copies examined

British Library: O.R.70.dd.9
Curwen Press: B36

Title page

As Nk3.

Collation and pagination

As Nk3.

Technical description

As Nk1a but for changed volume number.

Notes

In 1963 handlist originally numbered Nka.

The B.L. copy is no.XXXI of 48 copies on hand-made paper.

Vol. III binding is un-signed.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1933 Nk4 ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: O.R.70.dd.9
Curwen Press: B36

Title page

[A]2r

The Zohar | TRANSLATED BY MAURICE SIMON | AND DR. PAUL P. LEVERTOFF | FIVE VOLUMES | IV | . . . | LONDON | 1933

Imprint

[A]3v

Collation

[A]8 B-Z8 2A-2B8 2C10.

Pagination

[11] 4-112 [113] 114-31 [132] 133-54 [155] 156-250 [251] 252-326 [+2, 327] 328-78 [379] 380-91 [392] 393-409 [+1].

Technical description

As Nk1 but casing, spine unbleached linen, boards patterned paper Kzb no.29, label lettered in pen-and-ink: ‘Zohar | Vol. IV’; printed dust-jacket.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1933 Nk4a special edition

Copies examined

British Library: O.R.70.dd.9
Curwen Press: B36

Title page

As Nk4.

Collation and pagination

As Nk4.

Technical description

As Nk1a but for changed volume number.

Notes

In 1963 handlist originally numbered Nka.

The B.L. copy is no.XXXI of 48 copies on hand-made paper.

Vols. IV-V bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1934 Nk5 ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: O.R.70.dd.9
Curwen Press: B36

Title page

[A]2r

The Zohar | TRANSLATED BY MAURICE SIMON | AND | HARRY SPERLING | FIVE VOLUMES | V | LONDON | THE SONCINO PRESS | 5 Gower Street | 1934

Imprint

[A]2v

Collation

[A]4 B-Z8 2A-2C8 2D4.

Pagination

[11] 4-33 [34] 35-89 [90] 91-105 [106] 107-45 [146] 147-50 [151] 152-60 [161-3] 264-77 [178] 179-202 [203] 204-20 [221] 222-37 [238] 239-42 [243] 244-9 [250] 251-322 [323] 324-37 [238-41] 342-68 [369] 370-6 [377]378-87 [388-91] 392-406 [+2].

Technical description

As Nk1 but casing, spine unbleached linen, boards patterned paper Kzb no.29, label lettered in pen-and-ink: ‘Zohar | Vol. V’; printed dust-jacket.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1934 Nk5a special edition

Copies examined

British Library: O.R.70.dd.9
Curwen Press: B36

Title page

As Nk5.

Collation and pagination

As Nk5.

Technical description

As Nk1a. but for changed volume number.

Notes

In 1963 handlist originally numbered Nka.

The B.L. copy is no.XXXI of 48 copies on hand-made paper.

Vols. IV-V bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963