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(HAGADAH). - Hagadah shel Pesach - L’Haggada Illustrata. Edited by Abraham Vita Morpurgo. Hebrew only issue (see below). Finely illustrated by C. Kirchmayr with 58 copper-plates. Musical arrangements on final page. With additional title-page printed on blue paper. pp. (2), 24 (sic, i.e. 42), (2). Trace stained, few neat marginal repairs. Bound in Valmadonna-custom gilt-ruled mottled mahogany calf, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Folio. Yudlov 1217; Yaari 899. Trieste: Colombo Coen (Jonah Cohen) 1864 “The Trieste Hagadah is undoubtedly the most distinguished illustrated edition produced in Europe during the nineteenth century.” (Yerushalmi 102-105).===Different in format and design from any edition that preceded it, the Trieste Hagadah’s engraved illustrations, though inspired by the iconographic themes of the past, display a welcome freshness of design. Two issues were published simultaneously, one entirely in Hebrew and the other accompanied by an Italian translation.