Title: Four Centuries of Polish Frith
- Compiled by: selection and introduction by Julian Tuwim, foreword by Aleksander Bruckner, layout by Kazimierz Piekarski
- Place of publication: Warsaw
- Year of publication: 1937
- Publisher: J. Przeworski
- Number of pages: XXX, 524
- Illustrations, maps: vignettes and decorations in the text
- Size: 22 cm
- Binding: publisher's hard cloth, wrapper, cardboard case
- Condition: tears of the case, small loss of the wrapper on the spine
- ISBN: ---
Description:
Issue 1 A collection of several hundred Polish epigrams arranged chronologically from Rej, Sęp Szarzyński and Kochanowski to Hemar, Tuwim and Slonimski, collected by the author from books, magazines and manuscripts. In the collection, the author also included a number of obscene phrases, which he did not even list in the index: "I did not isolate there .... these tasty raisins. Those who are curious must read the whole book to catch the spicy bits" (from the introduction by J. Tuwim).
Also includes an index of topics and an index of authors.