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ENCYCLOPEDYJA POWSZECHNA Vol. 1-28. Warsaw 1859-1868. edited, printed and owned by S. Orgelbrand.

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ENCYCLOPEDYJA Powszechna. Vol. 1-28. Warsaw 1859-1868. edited, printed and owned by S. Orgelbrand

24 cm, period binding: psk with embossing. and gilt title, volume number and W.P. monogram on spine. Grzegorczyk 2585: "One of the best original Polish encyclopedias, still not without value today. The most important work of bookseller and printer Samuel Orgelbrand (1810-1868), publisher of some 600 titles, including more than a hundred in Hebrew. More than a hundred prominent scholars, writers and artists were involved in its compilation. Collaborators included: Władysław Ludwik Anczyc, Michał Baliński, Julian Bartoszewicz, Władysław Bentkowski, Ignacy Chodźko, Karol Estreicher, Adam Jocher, Kazimierz Kalinka, Adam Kirkor, Oskar Kolberg, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Józef Kremer, Aleksander Lesser, Jan Feliks Piwarski, Hipolit Skimborowicz, Franciszek Maksymilian Sobieszczański, Franciszek Wężyk, Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki. The initial number of subscribers was about three thousand, but after the January Uprising their number dropped to about 500. Despite enormous difficulties, the work was brought to completion. Commonly referred to as Orgelbrand's Encyclopedia, it is the most comprehensive and the only one to be brought to completion in the 19th century. Each volume of the Encyclopedia is nearly 1,000 pages long. Many entries to this day delight with elaboration, and are in vain to be found in other encyclopedias - an unquestionably unsurpassed model for contemporary publications of this kind.

Period binding: brown half leather - only vol. 2 and 3 in contemporary, also brown half-leather binding with expertly reproduced embossing and gilding of the period. In vol. 4: pre-title and title pages completed; spines of vol. 1 and 26 after minor restoration, traces of pale flooding in vol. 1, 2, 5, 7; very occasional yellowing, pastedowns with ex libris. Overall good condition.

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