Seder Selichoth Mi'kol HaShanah.
[Penitential prayers for the whole year according to the Ashkenazic rite].
Amsterdam, Shlomo son of Joseph Proops, 1816
The Proops family were a dynasty of well known Hebrew printers, publishers and booksellers in Amsterdam. Solomon Ben Yosef (d. 1734), whose father may have been a Hebrew printer as well, was an established bookseller in Amsterdam and in 1704 had set up his own Hebrew press, which produced mainly liturgical books as well as works on halakhah, Kabbalah, Jewish ethics and history. From 1715 productions by Proops carried advertisements of books he had published, and in 1730 he issued a sales catalogue, the first such Hebrew publication.
After his death, appointed guardians continued to operate the press, and even when his three sons took over, they continued trade under the old name until 1751, and later - under their own names. Solomon ben Abraham Proops, grandson of Solomon Ben Yosef split from the family printing house in 1797 and continued to work alone until 1827. In 1785 Joseph Proops sold most of his work to Kurzbeck of Vienna, and when Proops died a year later, his widow and sons continued printing on a small scale, with various partners, until early 19th century. This book was presumably printed by one of the sons.
4to, later bind-tooled calf with maroon pastedown to front cover with gilt lettering, spine hinges cracked and chipped, but holding; edges gilt, top margin closely shaved, affecting the text on some pages; browning and soiling to some of the pages, text in Hebrew; [4], 146 ll.
Not in Vinograd.
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