[OLESZCZYŃSKI Antoni] - Memories of Poles what they were famous in foreign and distant countries. Descriptions and images. Part 1...Paris 1843

Author: OLESZCZYŃSKI Antoni

Title: Memories of Poles what they were famous for in foreign and distant countries. Descriptions and images. Part 1.

• Place of issue: Paris
• Year of publication: 1843
• Publisher: Printing House and Lithographer Maulde and Renau
• Number of pages: [4], 204
• Illustrations, maps: f. plates 44, frontispiece (intaglio)
• Size: 24.5 cm
• Binding: soft replacement
• Condition: characteristic yellowing of paper, loose block, preserved tissue guards

Description:

Set of engravings. Banach, Polish illustrated book 334.On the frontispiece different place of publication: Leipzig, Foreign Printing House and date 1844.Anonymous edition. The following parts did not appear.

Oleszczynski "[...] created a several-volume 'Archive of artistic, literary and historical memorabilia,' from which [...] he drew motifs for his engravings . This was the genesis of first 'Polish Varieties' (Paris 1832-3), an album containing 60 intaglio prints with texts from Polish history [...] and then 'Memoirs of Poles who were famous in foreign and distant countries', part I (Paris 1843) with 45 intaglio prints. Only part II of this publication, devoted to 'the history of the arts and sciences in Poland' (lost), never published, remained in manuscript." (PSB).

The plates include views of Tyniec, Pieskowa Skała, Grodzisk, Ojców, Cracow, Łobzów, Opoczno, Frombork, historical and allegorical scenes, portraits.

Antoni Oleszczynski (1794-1879) - prominent Polish printmaker, specializing in intaglio technique.