Krakow 1938/ Gebethner and Wolff, Drukarnia Pospieszna in Krakow/ first edition/ 15x24cm/s.95 /black and white illustrations in the text and woodcuts on separate pages/ binding, full leather, embossed decorations on the face, spine with convex gilt lettering, decorations, pasted original publisher's cover/ very good condition-, cover soiled, small loss of the corner of the title page, small loss of pages 11-14. Otherwise nice piece.
French text from the 15th century was interpolated by Adam Polewka. Decorated with drawings by Tadeusz Potworowski
On the corresponding pages pasted reproductions of 5 drawings by T. Potworowski. On the cover and the initial page reproductions of woodcuts from the incunabula French edition
Tadeusz Potworowski (1898-1962) - painter, stage designer, member of the Kapist group, pupil of J. Pankiewicz and F . Leger, one of the most outstanding individualities of Polish 20th century painting.