Lorentowicz Jan- Polish love song. An anthology[luxury binding of the publisher].

Lorentowicz Jan/ Polish love song. With 12 reproductions of paintings by Polish artists/Warsaw [1912]/ Publisher Gebethner and Wolff's imprint/ publisher's binding full leather/ p.[4],XI,[3], 479/ 12 engravings in the text/ piece partly uncut/ good+ condition, rubbing and discoloration of binding, small tear in upper right corner of front cover, discoloration of paper in places.

Luxury publisher's binding, full leather. Gilded titulature on the front cover, floral ornamentation in the central part of the cupid, the whole compositionally enclosed in a gilded ornamental frame ( ornamentation signed with the monogram A.D); gilded titulature and floral ornamentation on the spine; upper trim of the pages gilded; decorated endpapers. Original booklet cover preserved. Binding probably made by Jan Franciszek Puget (some pieces of the edition-both cloth and luxury binding were signed on the back cover with a blind stamp, this piece without embossing).

An illustrated anthology of Polish love poetry. Poems of the greatest Polish poets: by Jan Kochanowski, K. Tetmajer, Andrzej Morsztyn, A. Mickiewicz, J. Słowacki. Illustrations by Artur Grottger, Jan Matejko, Wojciech Kossak, Józef Brandt, Jacek Malczewski.