mystery books


mystery books, originally uploaded by aesop.

From the mysterious Bookstack F. This is from a run of such books, which seem to have been produced annually in the Hebrew alphabet. What is it? An almanac or yearbook of some kind, presumably, hence the annual production and regular format (the books are sustantially similar in size and printing. What’s it doing in Bristol? (Even though Bristol has a historical Jewish population I think that it’s provenance is probably more interesting than a simple matter of a local donation to the library).