Seder HaTefiloth - The Form of Daily Prayers. According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portugese Jews

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Solomon Henry Jackson

New York

1826

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and English on facing pages. Translated by Solomon Henry Jackson. Edited by E.S. Lazarus (uncle to Emma Lazarus)

Singerman 436; Rosenbach 284; Vinograd, New York 6

The First Hebrew Prayer-Book Printed in America. Solomon Henry Jackson (d.1847), the first Jewish printer in New York, posessed both English and Hebrew type fonts and thus was the first to print bi-lingual Hebrew matter in America. Undoubtedly, his most important work was this Form of Daily Prayers, the crown jewel of early American Hebrew printing