[POL Wincenty]
JANUSH'S SONGS
volume 1
published by Alexander Yelovytsky
Paris 1833, pp. 275, format 10.5x16 cm
First edition!
The first (and for decades the only published) volume of "Songs of Janusz" by Wincenty Pol. A collection of patriotic poems dedicated to the November Uprising.
At the beginning a bipartite coat of arms of the Crown and Lithuania with the maxim "God save Poland". On the plate a portrait of Casimir Pulaski in steel engraving.
Very rare!
HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER, SPINE WITH RAISED SCROLLS, GILT AND GILT EMBOSSING, STRIKING ORNAMENT IN MIRROR OF COVERS. LININGS MADE OF HAND-DYED MARBLED PAPER, PAGE EDGES GILT MARBLED WITH THE SAME PATTERN. THE INTERIORS OF THE COVERS FINISHED WITH A DECORATIVE SCRAWL.
BDB condition/ rusty spots and discoloration in places, A NICE piece.
