A. N. Nowaczynski Skotopaski sowizdrzalskie [1st edition, 1904].

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Adolf Neuwert Nowaczynski
Skotopaski sowizdrzalskie

Cracow 1904 first edition
Drukarnia Narodowa
(8)102(2)s. + board with portrait of the author by F. Pautsch (also illustrations inside)
Stained top trim
Half cloth o. with marbled paper and gilt titling on spine, inside retained original booklet o.

pp. bdb
For. ca: 15.5x14 cm

"On the cover of Skotopasek we see Stańczyk fleeing from the pursuing crowd. Running after him, threatening and waving their hands, are a Jew, a knight and rich townsfolk A fat priest has just entangled himself in a cassock and turned a buck. The amused Stanza looks back. In his hand he holds a jester's scepter and a magnifying glass, symbols of power and sharpness of judgment, which, after all, determines the timeliness of all satire and aphorisms. The reader's imagination in black and hot red is further ignited by the book's title, inscribed in "Gothic" alphabet, with an S-shaped monogram "blazing" on the brown cardboard of the binding. The cover of Skotopaski sowizdrzalskie was composed by folklore and Hutsul enthusiast, a pupil of Leon Wyczółkowski - born in 1877 in Delatyna, Ukraine - Friedrich Pautsch." source: Jan Straus, Now Cover, Warsaw 2021, p. 314