Author: SIENNICKI Stanisław Józef
Title: Les Elzevir de la Bibliothèque de l'Université Impériale de Varsovie. Ouvrage enrichi de 23 planches.
- Place of issue: Varsovie (Warsaw)
- Year of publication: 1874
- Publisher: Imprimerie du Journal "Wiek" (de Jean Noskowski) Noskowski Printing House.
- Number of pages: [8], 221, [3].
- Illustrations, maps: engraving plate 1 (lithograph), facsimile plate 22
- Size: 21 cm
- Language: French
- Binding: hard cardboard binding, publisher - sticker on front pasteboard "A. Morawski Introligator in Warsaw"
- Condition: rubbing/fraying/tears of the binding
Description:
Monograph by Stanislaw Jozef Siennicki (1834-1897), librarian, bibliographer, collector. In the work, the author described 590 works from the famous Amsterdam-based Elzewir publishing house(then in the collection of the University Library in Warsaw), paying special attention to the provenance of the prints, autographs, printers' signets, as well as ownership marks and ex-librises. In front of the text, a lithograph depicting the building of the University Library in Warsaw (Kazimierzowski Palace) according to a drawing by Kamil Misyrowicz, eng. L. Wattson (by the author), at the end boards with likenesses of ex-librises, stamps and ownership entries. Rare