RYDEL Lucyan - Queen Hedwig 1910

Queen Jadwiga was written by Lucyan Rydel

Lucyan Rydel - Polish poet and prose writer of the Young Poland period. In addition to his own work, he became famous for his high-profile wedding to peasant girl Jadwiga Mikołajczykówna. This event became the theme of The Wedding, the famous drama written by Stanislaw Wyspianski.

The presented biography of Queen Jadwiga was dedicated by the author and publisher to Jadwiga née Hr. Dzialynska Jenerałowa Zamoyska - a Polish aristocrat and social activist.

Beautifully published (print on chalk paper, richly illustrated - color and black and white illustrations)

In the text and on the plates numerous paintings by Polish artists, among others: Jan Matejko, Stanisław Wyspiański and Włodzimierz Tetmajer

pp. [4], 324, [12], 16 plates illustrated.

Binding: hardback publisher's cloth with embossing/gilt/titling on spine and face/preserved decorative booklet cover designed by Jan Bukowski

Year of publication: Poznań 1910. published by Karol Kozłowski

Format: 23.5 x 29 cm

Condition: complete, 20 pages with looseness, rust stains on the backstrip and booklet cover [foxing], infrequent minor soiling of the pages [not detrimental to the text], minor numerical signature on the backstrip [pen], binding with rubbing/soiling