[signed binding by Robert Jahoda] KLACZKO Julian - Florentine Evenings 1917

Florentine Evenings by Julian Klaczko

a work crowned by the French Academy

translated on the author's authority by St. Tarnowski

Year of publication: Warsaw 1917, published by F. Hoesick Bookstore*.

p. VIII, 205, 10 plates with reproductions

Format: 24.5 x 18 cm

Binding: semi-canvas with gilt titling on spine (signed with dry embossing "R.Jahoda Zakład Introligatorski w Krakowie"), with preserved booklet publishing cover, marbled boards.

Condition: complete and consistent, no signatures or underlining in the text, foreign dedication [pen] and minor numerical signature [pencil] on the pre-title page, [PROVENANCE: stamp on the title page: 'Ludwik Mleczko** Notary in Krakow Rynek Gl. 6 (Szara kamienica)'] on three pages minor sealing of foreign signatures with cardboard [no damage to text], on one page stamp 'withdrawn from BUŚ collection', cover with rust discoloration, cardboard sticker on back cover

*Ferdynand Hoesick 's bookstore was established in Warsaw in 1865. It was located at 22 Senatorska St. It was engaged in publishing books and magazines, as well as selling through a bookstore. From 1917 its co-owner, and from 1927. - owner was Marian Sztajnsberg, a Polish bookseller and publisher of Jewish origin, known, among other things, as the publisher of Witkacy's Farewell to Autumn. In 1940, Sztajnsberg managed to escape to Switzerland, but the police there considered his documents forged and handed him over to the Germans. He died in 1943 of starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto. [For Polin, Virtual Shtetl].

**LudwikMleczko - a Krakow notary, after the war a councillor of the State Notary Office, father of Zofia Anna Mleczko (1918 - 2004) - Polish librarian, senior certified custodian, head of the Collection Sharing and Print Elaboration Department of the Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow.