Szyk (Arthur) Statut de Kaliski, one of 500 copies, 48 leaves, including 47 colour plates, and 1 blank, loose as issued, housed within presentation portfolio, morocco-backed and edged, with pictorial cloth panel, gilt, folio, Paris, F. Bruchman for Editions de la Table Ronde, 1932.*** Szyk’s first major manuscript project, celebrating the text of 'The General Charter of Jewish Liberties', which granted civil and religious rights to Polish Jews in 1264 by Duke Boles?aw the Pious, in Kalisz. The full edition of 500 copies was never completed, and furthermore many of those already printed were destroyed in the German bombing of Warsaw. Szyk himself stated that only fifty copies existed, while others even as low as twenty or thirty. The original artwork for the Statut Kaliski is now in the collection of the Jewish Museum in New York.