Shulhan Arukh. Be'er ha-Golah. Be'ur ha-Gr"a

All notes by Chaim Meiselman: notes Elements of the title are rubricated, with the most prominent being the place of print. Title also contains a printers device and a dedication to Alexander I of Russia "Aleksandr Pavlevich" (1777-1825). This - along with the 1803 edition of Orakh Ḥaim - were the inaugural editions for the commentary by Elijah b. Solomon of Vilna (1720-1797), known as Gr"a (acronym for Ga’on Rav Eliyahu). The edition’s print layout features a column of the text (Joseph Karo and Moses Isserles) to the outer portions of the page, while Elijah’s commentary straddles the larger aspect of the gutter-edge. On the margin-edge, Moses Rivkes’ Be’er ha-Golah is printed in a thin column in small print. The publishers of this edition were Yehuda-Leib and Avraham, both sons of Elijah of Vilna. The additional publishers were Menaḥem-Mendl b. Barukh of Shklove (1750-1827, author of Pe’at ha-Shulḥan and Ṭiḳlin Ḥadeitin), a student of Elijah; additional publishers are listed subsequently. language Hebrew. references Friedberg, Beit Eked Sefarim, shin 1473 : 1 (second count) Hillel-Noah Maggid-Steinschneider, ’Ir Vilna, p. 201. Strauss, Berthold, Cat. of the B. Strauss Library, 5595. benJakob, Otsar ha-Sefarim, shin 715. Steinschneider, M., Cat. Libr. Hebr. Bodl., 5940 : 63.