Bidspirit auction | (ROEDELHEIM, 1822). Seder HaHagadah LeLeil

(ROEDELHEIM, 1822). Seder HaHagadah LeLeil Shimurim. Prepared by Wolf Heidenheim. ff. 52. Few light stains. Modern morocco. Rectangular 16mo. Yudlov 628. Rödelheim, Wolf Heidenheim, 1822. The first of a long and celebrated series of Hagadahs printed in Rödelheim. Heidenheim printed two other issues of the Hagadah in this nascent year. From a perusal through the relevant bibliographies, it would appear this Rödelheim edition is the first Hagadah printed in a rectangular format. Indeed, it might very well be the first Hebrew book entirely, to be printed in such a fashion. The innovation of a rectangular Hagadah served to more comfortably aid the reader while seated at a lavishly set Seder table.