OSTOJA-CHROSTOWSKI Stanislaw - Exlibrises ... Text by d.M.Treter. Warsaw 1931. by J. Mortkowicz. 4, p. 37. opr. luxurious leather decorated with preserved booklet cover.
Grońska 107. minor rubbing of edges of cover, inside very good condition. Cover title: "Fourteen exlibrises drawn and cut on boxwood blocks by Stanislaw Ostoja-Chrostowski [...]". Ex-libris of Anna Ostoja-Chrostowska, wife of Stanislaw. According to the sticker in ex. Bibliot. Narod. the book won first prize at the International Exhibition of Exlibris in Los Angeles in 1931. 25 copies were issued, this one without number. Printed on handmade Dabrowicz paper. Contains 14 original graphic prints from 1928-1931 hand-signed in pencil by the artist, as well as a title woodcut on the front cover and an ornate woodcut initial. Binding (author's?): 5-field rounded spine with scrolls, gilt monogram S.O.C. in center field, blind embossed linear ornamentation and gilt floral ornamentation in others; gilt linear border and blind embossed geometric ornamentation around both covers. Very rare!
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