Wincenty Pol: Senators' Consent. Traditioncya szlachecka Yegomość Pan Benedykta Winnickiego, 1854

Title: Senatorial Consent. Traditioncya szlachecka Yegomość Pan Benedykta Winnickiego

Author: Pol Wincenty

Subject description:

Notes: Striking anonymous chromolithographed publisher's binding. Poem in verse.

- Wincenty Pol (20.04.1807 Lublin - 2.12.1872 Krakow) Polish poet, geographer and ethnographer, professor at the Jagiellonian University, participant in the November Uprising. He graduated from high school in Lviv in 1822 after which he began university studies in Lviv, which he briefly interrupted. He finally graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Lviv in 1827. In 1830 he left for Vilna, where he began working as a German language teacher at Vilna University. He took part in the November Uprising, rising to the rank of lieutenant and receiving the Virtuti Militari Cross. In 1831 he crossed the Prussian border, then stayed in Dresden and Paris. He described his experiences during the November Uprising in Lithuania in "Lithuanian Pictures" ("Strzecha" 1870-1871). He made his literary debut in 1835 under the pseudonym "Janusz Nowina" with a highly regarded collection of patriotic insurrectionary poems titled. "Songs of Janusz" (Paris, anti-dated 1833). In 1832 he stayed in Greater Poland, then went to Galicia. At that time he also undertook travels in Volhynia, Podolia and other regions of Ukraine on a secret mission to raise funds for post-insurrection emigrants. In 1834-1835 he lived in Cracow, then in Zagórzany near Gorlice with Tadeusz Skrzyński. Since 1834 he made regular excursions in the Tatras, Beskids and Eastern Carpathians, popularizing them in published ethnographic and geographical descriptions. In 1837 he settled in Kalnica, Lesko County, and in 1839 in Lesko; in 1840 he settled in Glinik Mariampolski (now a district of Gorlice). In 1842 he signed a declaration of loyalty, at which time he was removed from police supervision, to which he had been subject since 1837. In 1843 his most popular work, "Song of our Land," was published. Between 1840 and 1846 he traveled extensively in Volhynia, Podolia, Pokucie, Polesie and the Eastern Carpathians; he also traveled in Kujawy, Zulawy, Greater Poland, the Beskids and the Tatra Mountains. He did not participate in the 1846 uprising, against which he was critical, however, he took part in the Springtime of Nations in the Lviv area. He also traveled further, visiting Silesia, Greater Poland, Berlin and Rügen. In 1847-1848 he edited the "Library of the Scientific Ossoline Institute" in Lviv. In November 1849 he was appointed associate professor of geography at Jagiellonian University in Krakow from where he was dismissed in 1853 on charges of disloyalty to the authorities. He then took up literary work and in 1854 took over the editorship of the Literary Journal. In 1855 his famous poem "Mohort. A rhapsody of chivalry from a story". After the death of his wife (1855), he lived mostly in Tyśmienica district of Translate, then in Lviv and Krakow. In 1872 he became a member of the Academy of Learning; see DPP vol. 3: Mia-R pp. 266-270 and in more detail Polski słownik biograficzny (PSB) vol. 27 ss. 255-263

Condition:

Binding quite badly damaged at corners and spine where losses, part of front pastedown missing, block in early part with small mark of old flooding in right margin, foxing on pages, minor damage to 1 card, no entries or stamps. Item in at least good condition

Grading of state of preservation:

• perfect condition: (6) no flaws, no signs of use, like new
• very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very slight defects, almost like new (unused)
• nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
• quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
• more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), fairly insignificant, not very significant defects
• at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
• good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
• less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
• more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
• at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), fairly poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
• Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major defects in the card, basically destruct

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