K. Hoffmanowa - A devotional book for Polish women. 1851.

[HOFFMANOWA Klementyna] - A devotional book for Polish women, by the author of Pamiątka po dobréj matce. Minor ed. Cracow [imprim. 1851]. D. E. Friedlein. 16d, pp. [6], VII, [1], 455, plate 2 (intaglio) + plate 3 extraneous. binding somewhat late leather, hardware, gilt trim.
Missing clasp and part of one ferrule, some pages (covering "Sunday Service", pp. 32-96) clearly worn, loose, with taped margins, minor staining of other pages. On both covers hardware covering outer corners, metal rosettes there (one missing). Attached metal monogram of Z. U. Dublura in gilt on front cover. The original plates at the front feature the figure of St. Stanislaus and the likeness of the stone portal of the Chapel of St. Kunegunda in Stary Sącz. The book is equipped with three additional plates: a lace picture "Statue de la B. V. Marie de Notre Dame des Victoires" from 1853, a commemorative picture issued after the death of François (François) de Berski in 1863, and a "Commemorative of the Polish Month of Mary" published the same year with a colorful insurrectionary coat of arms and the maxim "God save Poland."
K. Hoffmanowa (1798-1845) - novelist, translator, publisher, educator, one of the first Polish writers for children. Chairwoman of the Patriotic Benevolent Association. Called "Mother of the Great Emigration."