[HYLZEN Jerzy Mikolaj] - The Pastoral Voice of H.E. H.X.J. Bishop Smolinski To His Lambs Named and To Those Lambs on the p...

[HYLZEN Jerzy Mikołaj] - The Pastoral Voice of H.W. J.X.J. Bishop Smolinski To His Lambs, and To These Lambs for posterity's affections of his memory under the Honour of Herbowny Załuskich Baranek for reading and recollection frequent in Druku podany. Cracoviae 1756. typis Praefecti Typographiae sue Celsitudinis R. Petri Antonij Frola. 4, pp. [6], XXXVI, 123, [1], 74, [2], plate 1. broch.
E. 18, 325. marginal pages somewhat dusty, good condition. Ex. uncut and largely uncut. Stamp and inventory number. Estreicher locates one known copy, giving a title slightly different from the above. A collection of sermons and Sunday teachings by J. M. Hylzen (1692-1775) - bishop of Smolensk, clerical scribe of Great Lithuania, author, translator and publisher. The book was printed by Antonio Pietro Frola, a clergyman who came from Rome and took over the management of the printing house of Bishop Andrzej Stanisław Załuski. His coat of arms (Lamb) against the background of his rich library was placed by Frola on a plate attached immediately after the title page. The plate was engraved by Michal Zhukovsky in Cracow.