RARE introduction to Machzor Vitry with notes and introduction by Rabbi Shimon Halevi Horowitz and Abraham Berliner. 260x175mm. 200+16 pages. Black rebound Hardcover. Spine bottom edge bumped. Front whitepage edges slightly worn. Stamp on Hebrew title-page, first and last pages. Pen writing on Hebrew title-page. Page 1 dirty. Small wormhole on first 65 pages with very slight damage on some pages to only one letter of the word in the text without obscuring it and leaving the text readable. Several small wormholes on some pages bottom edge, single small wormhole on all pages bottom edge - NO damage to text. Several last pages corner wrinkled/creased. Last page bottom corner missing - NO damage to text. First and last pages age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare introduction to one of the most important sources for the history of Jewish liturgy has sustained some damage, but is still in good reading condition.