MORSTIN Ludwig Hieronim
THE MAIDEN'S EAR
Wyd.1
Warsaw 1929, published by H. Hoesick Bookstore, pp. VIII, 310, [4], format 13x19.5cm
Morstin LUDWIK HIERONIM, b. December 12, 1886, Pławowice near Miechów, d. May 12, 1966, Warsaw, playwright, prose writer, poet, translator;
co. (1911) and co-editor of the literary magazine "Museion", 1930-31 editor of "Warsaw Diary"; one of the leading representatives of the classicist tendencies, grown at the end of the Young Poland movement; plays on ancient (Defense of Xantha 1939, Penelope performed 1945), hist. (Poles not geese 1952, on M. Rej) and contemporary (Florentine Adventure, performed 1957); novel on M. Copernicus The ear of a maiden (1929); poetry, literary sketches (Tales of people and events 1964, Z niejednej szuflady 1967) and hist.-cult. (Dziwy kultury antycznej 1959), memoirs; translations; Z pismo... (t. 1-4 1959-67).
HARDCOVER FULL DECORATIVE LEATHER OF THE PERIOD, ON THE ENTIRE SURFACE OF THE COVERS REPRODUCED OVAL INLAYS OF GREEN DYED LEATHER SURROUNDED BY DEEPLY EMBOSSED BLACK ORNAMENTS WITH FLORAL COMPOSITION, ON THE SPINE, IN ADDITION, CONVEX ZWIEZY AND GILDED TITULATURE. ON BOTH COVERS INCORPORATED GREEN TINTED FIELD CONTAINING EMBOSSED IN BLACK PAINT INSCRIPTIONS: AUTHOR AND TITLE OF THE WORK. INTERIORS OF COVERS FINISHED WITH INTRICATE GILT DECORATION. ORNATE LINING. THE CHARACTER AND ORNAMENTATION OF THE BINDING INDICATE THE WORKSHOP OF THE FAMOUS POLISH BOOKBINDER FRANCISZEK JOACHIM RADZISZEWSKI.
"Radziszewski was the greatest Polish master of bookbinding leatherwork". Source: W. Łysiak, "Empireum" t. I. p. 102, Wyd. Nobilis, Warsaw 2004
Condition BDB-/ minor rubbing of binding, decimalisation on front cover, NICE piece
