Universal ENCYCLOPEDIA Ultima Thule Volume I-X [WEST BINDINGS].

Universal Encyclopedia Ultima Thule

edited by Stanislaw Fr. Michalski

Rarely available set of 10 volumes - in notebooks

1. volume I A-Bhalpagur (notebooks 1-24). With 70 maps and tables and 138 drawings in the text

2. volume II Bhagavadgita-Delboeuf (notebook 25-48) With 49 maps and tables and 109 drawings in the text

3. volume III Delbruck-Garnier (notebook 49-72) With 56 maps and plates and 130 drawings in the text

4. volume IV Garnier-Instance (notebook 73-96) With 71 maps and tables and 163 drawings in the text

5. volume V Insterburg-Korecki (notebook 97--120) With 50 maps and tables and 169 drawings in the text

6. volume VI Korek-Mako (notebook 121-132) With 36 maps and plates and 185 drawings in the text

7. vol. VII Macolago-Obra (notebook 133-144) With 60 maps and tables and 167 drawings in the text

8. volume VIII Machine Tools-Q (notebook 145-159) With 46 maps and tables and 162 drawings in the text

9 Volume IX R- Spa (notebook 1-13) With 54 maps and tables and 186 drawings in the text

10 Volume X Spada-Szymonovich (notebook 1-6). Printing of Volume X interrupted by the outbreak of war. The last - the 6th notebook was published in July 1939.

Polish encyclopedia, published in 1927-1939 by Ultima Thule publishing house, edited by Stanislaw Franciszek Michalski. Text supplemented by numerous drawings in the text, as well as maps and tables. On the back covers of the notebooks of Volume X is the information : "Encyclopedia is coming out in notebooks at a fast pace. (...) The whole, consisting of about 10 large volumes, will be completed presumably in 1939/1940." Unfortunately, the outbreak of World War II made notebook 6 of volume X the last one.

Year of publication: Warsaw 1927-1939, Ultima Thule Publishing House

Format: 25 x 18 cm

Binding: period half leather/ gilded titling on spine/ preserved publisher's booklet binding

Condition: complete [except for missing title page of volume 9], pages partially uncut, edges of some pages and booklet covers frayed [no damage to text], no signatures or underlining in text, minor signatures on faces of booklet covers and on endpapers [in pencil], 3 front booklet covers loose, soiling/discoloration of booklet cover of volume 1 in volume X, [PROVEN: on the front endpapers small pastedowns "Introligatornia Linda i SP. Warsaw Żórawia 43"* and "Introligatornia Artystyczna W. Michalska Warszawa, Senatorska 6"**], covers with minor rubbing and scratches and minor dings/discoloration.

*Integrated bookbinder Antoni Linda trained professionally in Krakow, Vienna, Munich and Berlin. In 1898, with his guildmate Roman Denisewicz, he founded a company focused on mass hardback and booklet binding, employing several to a dozen workers. The products reached a high technical and aesthetic level. Among other things, Linda's plant made half-leather covers for the Ultima Thule Encyclopedia, probably designed by the same artist Z.B., who decorated the booklet cover of the individual notebooks (after E. Pokorzyńska, Z dziejów introligatorstwa warszawskiego XIX i 1. połowa XX wieku)

**IntroligatorniaArtystyczna was registered in 1929.In the late 1930s it employed more than 60 people. The company made book and magazine bindings, souvenir books, albums and portfolios, and undertook conservation work on entire libraries. Its owner was Wanda Michalska - the wife of bookseller Jan Michalski - co-founder of one of the largest publishing houses of the Second Republic - Trzaska, Evert and Michalski Publishing Bookstore. (after E . Pokorzyńska, Z dziejów introligatorstwa warszawskiego XIX i 1. połowy XX wieku)