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RARE monograph on Hebrew poetry metre based on 'Metek Sefatayim', a treatise on Hebrew prosody by the eminent 17th-century Italian Jewish poet and rabbinical scholar Immanuel Frances. 215x145mm. VIII+100 pages. Marbled board Hardcover with brown cloth spine. Cover, cover corners and edges rubbed. Sticker residues on spine and spine hinges bottom part. Several small wormholes on rear cover bottom corner near spine. Worm-marks and wormholes on spine. Spine dirty and lumpy. Spine edges worn. Single small wormhole penetrating all pages edge near binding from front inner cover to rear cover - no damage to text. Single small wormhole penetrating pages 25-100 and rear cover with slight damage to several letters of the text (thus, text still readable). Worm-marks/holes on rear inner cover and several last pages - NO damage to text. Binding visible on upper edge between front inner cover and whitepage, and between pages 80-81. Ex-library copy with stamp on whitepage and title page, and bottom corner of pages 7 and 85. Pages I-VIII coming loose from binding. Ink/pen inscriptions on front whitepage and title page. Title and last pages slightly age-stained. Pages yellowing and slightly wavy. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book on Hebrew prosody has sustained some damage, but is still in good reading condition.