Gawalewicz Marian - Queen of Heaven. Folk legends about the Mother of God [blue binding variant][il. Piotr Stachiewicz].

Gawalewicz Marian/ Queen of Heaven. Legendy ludowe o Matce Boskiej/ Warsaw 1894/ Gebethner i Wolff/ linen binding publisher/ p.156[4]/black and white illustrations in the text, 12 heliogravures on separate pages/ good condition, abrasions and dirt on the binding, minor soiling of the front pastedown and individual pages, ownership stamp of regent E. Kaczmarski on the title page.

Blue variant publisher's cloth binding richly decorated; face of cover compositionally divided by gold lines into two parts: central part composed of embossed and gilded titulature with floral composition, corners and wide strip of cover with gilded stars; spine with gilded titulature and ornaments at top and bottom; on back cover repeated and blind-embossed lines, in central part rosette. Gilded page edges.

Beautiful Marian album with text by M. Gawalewicz and illustrations by P. Stachiewicz. Decorative initials, finials, vignettes. On the boards heliogravure reproductions of paintings by Stachiewicz: Virgin of the flower, In the stable, In the flight to Egypt, Sowing, Assumption, On the starry road, On the thorny road, Saturday ray, Yarn of the Mother of God, Wedding garlands, Thunderbirds, Singer of the Mother of God.