ZEGADLOWICZ EMIL...

EMIL ZEGADŁOWICZ. Emil Zegadłowicz's ten ballads about powsinogs of the Beskids with color woodcuts by Zbigniew Pronaszko. Poznan 1929. the Society of Polish Bibliophiles. Druk. Zakł. Graf. Rolnicza Drukarnia i Księgarnia Nakładowa T.z.o.o. in Poznań under the management of Jan z Bugumin Kuglin. Format 22/28 cm. p. XII, 181. opr. broch. issued. 350 numbered pieces were printed (plus two off-numbers for the author and typographer). Piece no.1 attributed to Mr. President of the Polish Republic Ignacy Moscicki. No.2 to Mr. President of the capital city of Poznan Cyril Ratajski. No. 3 Minister of Industry and Trade Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski. No.4 Mr. Minister of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment Slawomir Czerwinski. No.5 To the Chief Director of the General National Exhibition Mr. Stanislaw Wachowiak. This piece bears the number 262 and was owned by Dr. Zofia Szybalska - her proprietary exlibris pasted in. On the front title page, a handwritten dedication by the author : To the highly esteemed Mrs. Dr. Zofia Szybalska with sincere best wishes sends Emil Zegadłowicz. Gorzeń Górny 15. V. 1933 In the text X multi-color, full-page woodcuts by Zbigniew Pronaszko. A nice, partially uncut piece. [Zofia Szybalska 1886 - 1945. Founder and headmistress of the junior high school in Jędrzejów from 1914 to 1919. Headmistress of the private female junior high school in Wadowice. Ph.D. in Polish philology. During the occupation she was active in the Home Army . She died tragically on 21.I.1945 during the Soviet bombing of Borek Fałęcki. Her parents were friends with Stanislaw Wyspianski, a double portrait painted by the artist of her and her younger sister is known. ]