Kasprowicz Jan, Marcholt fat a bawdy [1st edition].

Kasprowicz Jan, Marcholt fat a bawdy, his birth of life and death. A Tragicomic Mystery in Images of Four Closed, outlined by Gubrynowicz and Son, Lvov 1920, 1st edition, p. 288, dimensions 18 x 22.5 cm. Decorations inside and initials by Wladyslaw Jarocki. Half canvas with gilt on spine. Soiling, rubbing of the binding.

Thick vs. dusty. His birth of life and death a tragicomic mystery. In pictures of four closed. Marcholt (Marolf, Marchiandus, Marcolphus, Markolf - proper name: 'jay, bird of preening voices'). - The protagonist of the apocryphal tale of King Solomon entitled Rozmowy, które król Salomon mądry miał z Marchołtem grubym a sprośnym, a wszakoż, jako o niem powiedają, barzo z wymownym (Krakow, H. Wietor, 1521), having the character of a serious dialogue in the 5th-12th centuries, later a humorous work about a clever and rubbishy simpleton playing tricks on the wise man on the throne. At the end of the 12th century, a comic editorial was created in Germany, in which King Solomon's serious adversary is transformed into a jester.

Wladyslaw Jarocki (born June 6, 1879 in Podhajczyki, Zborowski district, died February 7, 1965 in Krakow) - Polish painter dealing mainly with Hutsul, Podhale and Tatra themes. President of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow.