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(CHILDREN’S HAGADAH). Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Twenty illustrated woodcuts. Instructions in Judeo-German. With Akdamuth [poem] for Shavu’oth appended. ff. 40. Stained, slight tear to f. 19. Modern calf. 16mo. Yudlov 165. Amsterdam, Solomon Proops, 1729. An early children’s Hagadah with numerous illustrations. This diminutive edition of the Passover Haggadah features twenty charming woodcuts among which depictions of children are prominent. The publisher explains on the title page he included these illustrations “especially for minors reclining at their parents’ table so that they not fall asleep but instead ask [questions].” As an interesting sidenote: This was the only Hagadah - worldwide! - published in the year 1729.