Grafika Polska. Monthly magazine devoted to printing, lithography, related graphic arts [cover Ludwik Gardowski].

Grafika Polska. Monthly magazine devoted to printing, lithography, related graphic arts/ Warsaw 1923/ Printed in L.Boguslawski's printing house/ publishing brochure/ pp.190-201[7] two illustrations on separate pages, embellishments in the text/ good condition, cover soiling, minor loss of lower right corner of cover, loss of spine veneer, creases of lower right corners of pages.

Layout of cover, notebook and decorations by graphic artist Ludwik Gardowski. Contains, among other things: Let's save libraries from extinction; Printing on the flatbed press; Cleaning the linotype; International convention of printing house owners; Attached to the magazine is a woodcut by Edmund Bartlomiejczyk , and an appendix by Grafika Polska containing price lists of printing work and articles used in the graphic arts industry.

Here is what Jan Strauss writes in , "Now the cover!" regarding this issue and more broadly, the magazine itself:

"Lettering, or rather the typeface that would best suit Polish and a language rich in letters with diagonal and cross-hatching, was one of the most frequently discussed topics in the pages of "Polish Graphics. The tone of the discussion around this topic was set by Adam Półtawski. It concerned not only the typeface of the future national typeface, but also the graphic interludes that were so important to the overall composition of printing. They were presented in successive issues of "Polish Graphics" on covers and special inserts, the author of which was Ludwik Gardowski, born in Warsaw in 1890. Perhaps the least typical and least reproduced of these, due to its baroque form, adorns the tenth issue of the magazine from 1923. I chose it to highlight the obvious parallels between Gradowski's ideas and Polish cathedral-style covers created in the late 1930s and early 1940s, also built from simple typesetting elements.