The Song of Songs. Original Manuscript.

America, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth-covered boards, backed in brown morocco; oblong 4to (340x265mm); approx. pp. 120, interleaved tissue and laid paper with untrimmed edges; composed of pen and ink drawings, woodblock cuts, and calligraphic text, translating "The Songs of Songs" from Hebrew into English. A unique artist's book by an American woman, impressively carried out. Some scuffing along spine, else fine.

With colophon statement, "This book was transcribed, illustrated, and bound by Beverly Wechsler, September 1955-May 1956; bound in half leather and ornamental brocade cloth-covered boards, gray endpapers, edges uncut (losses to leather backing, corners bumped); two pressed botanical specimens tucked inside back board; 10 3/8 x 13 ¼ in.
The Cooper Union alumni records make mention of her graduating in 1956. One wonders whether this book, created during the period of an average school term (September to May), was a senior thesis project.