Solomon ben Joseph

Solomon ben Joseph was a Hebrew printer and bookseller established in Amsterdam. He first acted as bookseller but in 1704 he set up his own Hebrew press, which produced mainly liturgical books but also a wider range of works in halakhah, aggadah, Kabbalah, ethics, and history. In 1714 Solomon began to print a Talmud, but was forced by competitors to discontinue in view of their prior rabbinic monopoly. From 1715 his productions carried advertisements of books he had published, and in 1730 he issued a sales catalog (Appiryon Shelomo), the first such Hebrew publication.