Bidspirit auction | (OFFENBACH, 1927). Offenbacher Haggadah. One

(OFFENBACH, 1927). Offenbacher Haggadah. One of 300 numbered copies. This being a special copy  (see below). Text in red and black. German text with sporadic use of Hebrew. Striking Wiener Werkstaette style hand-colored plates, including two Maps of the Holy Land by Fritz Kredel. Musical notations. pp. 97, (1). Custom vellum. Sm. folio. Slip-case. Yudlov 3054. Offenbach, Heinrich Cramer for Doctor Guggenheim, 1927. The “Offenbacher Haggadah” was a tapestry created by Fritz Kredel through the patronage of the German (and later American) lawyer and art collector, Siegfried Guggenheim (1873-1961). This copy specially bound in full vellum. The dedication page has a lengthy autograph inscription by Siegfried Guggenheim. The colophon page is signed by Guggenheim and numbered “000.”