Illustrated with 24 color lithograph plates and 96 black and white plates, from the artwork of Marc Chagall. 14x10¼, original color lithographed pictorial boards. First Edition.

Issued as Verve double number 37/38, the illustrations by Chagall deal with biblical themes which he had in general not covered in his 1956 work Illustrations for the Bible, which comprised Verve 33/34. Printed in France by Draeger Frères; the color lithographs produced by Mourlot Frères.