[at Tyszkiewicz] Leon KOPPENS - PRELUDE - Nice 1945

LEON KOPPENS

PRELUDE

AT TYSZKIEWICZ

ANNO DOMINI MDCCCCXLV

IN HIS NICHE OUTHOUSE

The volume contains:

Portrait of the Author - drawing by Henryk Berlewi

Sketch by Professor Julius Kleiner - About the Author

5 etchings by Wanda Samson Nebelska

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LIX PRELUDES

Leon Koppens - 1890 in Ruda - 1964 Buenos Aires - poet, Polish diplomat and consular official

Samuel Tyszkiewicz - 1889 in Warsaw - 1954 in Castel d'Aiano - Polish typographer, printer and publisher

Konstanty Brandel - 1880 in Warsaw - 1970 in Paris - Polish painter and graphic artist

The 37th publication of the Oficyna appears after a long break, caused by various changes in the present and future equipment, printing diplomas for the Resistance and orjentation in the seemingly regained freedom; it resonates with the longing that torments us all for the now unattainable native nature and its tranquility. The publication present in the previous catalog (No. 37) did not come in time and will appear in the near future. Contact with the parent publishing house in Florence and its library emboldens me to publish a catalog of all my publications. The program for the future does not place, due to the already accumulated material and the need to set a difficult to maintain order. Poets in wandering will remain and continue to be my most pleasant concern.

I assembled the preludes with my own hands with a pinch of French fonts of the Egyptienne type (Ramses Corps 8 et 6) and, having supplemented them with Polish markings on the prints, I gave them to make tintypes, leaving only the borders of the pages in lead. All this fancy material enriched the Oficyna's modest resources thanks to Janina Sliwinska's finding of a tiny jobbing print shop in a tiny Alpine town, forgotten after the death of an amateur. New Year's greetings and the aforementioned diplomas were created from this material. I printed the text and etchings by Wanda Nebelska (pseudonym Samson) antique modo on handmade rag paper (made at Favier's in Auvergne) in the usual edition of one hundred and fifty pieces, and fifty numbered 151-200, owned by the Author. I completed the printing in May one thousand nine hundred and forty-five amid the joy and bustle of the Victory Days.

Piece by Konstanty Brandl

Autograph by Samuel Tyszkiewicz.

Entire volume on handmade paper, woodcuts on facing pages - a magnificent work of the Master.

Condition: cover with slight rubbing - all in very good condition!

Number of pages: 97

Format: 17x13 cm

Definitely for the best collections!

Very rare.