A specialist in Hebrew book history, Heller has gathered articles he wrote for various scholarly journals, along with a new one, that provide snapshots of the early period of Hebrew book publishing through studies of specific books, publishers, authors, and other elements. His topics include mirror-image monograms as printers' devices on title pages of Hebrew books printed in the 17th and 18th centuries, Jedidiah ben Isaac Gabbai and the first decade of Hebrew printing in Livorno, and an unknown attempt to circumvent the inquisition's ban on the printing of the Talmud in 16th-century Italy. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)