Ein Avraham, Konigsberg, 1848 - Signatures and Glosses by Rabbi Yudel Epstein, Author of Kinamon Bosem

Aggadat Bavli - Ein Ya'akov, with the Ein Avraham commentary, by R. Avraham Schick and an introduction containing a method for studying Talmudic aggadot. Three volumes out of four. Konigsberg, [1848, second edition]. Approbation of R. Yisrael Lifshitz, author of the Tiferet Yisrael, R. Ya'akov Zvi Mecklenburg, author of HaKetav V'Hakabbalah and R. Aryeh Leib Shapira, Rabbi of Kalvarija [the only printed approbation of R. Aryeh Leib Shapira, Rabbi of Kovno].
On all three title pages are signatures of R. Yudel Epstein, with a flowery ownership inscription from Grodno 1852. Several handwritten glosses. The composition Kinamon Bosem written by R. Yudel Epstein himself is not included in these volumes.
R. Yehuda Yudel HaLevi Epstein (c. 1800-1879), a famous influential Torah scholar, see previous item. Author of the book Kinamon Bosem on Talmudic Aggadot, printed in Konigsberg in 1846 and enclosed with some of the first and second editions of Ein Avraham, printed in Konigsberg in 1845-1848. On the title page of Kinamon Bosem, R. Epstein wrote that he resides in Brisk Lithuania, however, in the introduction to his book Minchat Yehuda (Warsaw, 1877), he recounts his life's travails and writes that after various wanderings, in his later years he settled in the city of Warsaw. These signatures show that in 1952, he relocated to the city of Grodno.
3 volumes: [6], 112, 531 pages; [2] 480 pages; [2] 592 pages. 14 cm. Good-fair condition. Wear and stains, detached leaves. Contemporary torn and damaged bindings.
In the second edition with the approbations, the printing date and dates of the approbations were falsified to 1827-1828, apparently to mislead the Russian-Polish authorities, following the decree prohibiting printing Jewish books which existed in those years, beginning in 1837.