Soncino Haggadah, edited by Cecil Roth, Illustrations by Albert Rutherston, London: Soncino Press, 1930

260 pp. (11 ¾ x 8 ¾ in.; 300 x 225 mm). pagination: [4] i-xl [2], 210 [4].  Number "X"of 9 copies (marked: II to X) printed on Roman vellum, signed by the editor and the illustrator, from an overall edition of 110 copies, parallel text in English and Hebrew (Hebrew fonts by Enschede; English set in Baskerville),15 full-page illustrations and numerous head and tailpieces, all stenciled in colors under the supervision of Harold Curwen. An extremely small winestain is barely evident at the lower corner of several pages.  Original gilt-ruled green crushed morocco by Henry T. Wood, upper cover with gilt-stamped illustration, morocco and brass clasps, edges gilt. Ex libris of Anna and Robert H. Siskin Memorial Buildings.

one of only ten copies of this sumptous haggadah produced on vellum

Albert Rutherston (1881–1953), the artist responsible for tthe illustrations in the present haggadah (younger brother of renowned painter Sir William Rothenstein) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Sometime around the outbreak of the First World War, Albert changed his name to Rutherston, due to a groundswell of anti-German sentiment in Great Britain. Rutherston began his teaching career at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, and went on to become Ruskin Master of Drawing at Oxford (1929–49).

Cecil Roth (1899–1970), the haggadah's translator and editor, was an Oxford-educated Jewish historian and educator as well as a prolific writer of more than 600 works. In addition to his histories of the Jews in England and Italy, and his masterworks, A History of the Marranos, The Jews in the Renaissance, and Jewish Art , he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia Judaica from 1965 until his death.