ŁYSIAK Waldemar - Patriotic empire of bibliophilism or a guide to the hunting grounds of Bibliofilandia tu...

Author: ŁYSIAK Waldemar

Title: Patriotic empire of bibliophilism or a guide to the hunting grounds of Bibliofilandia tudzież sąsiednich mocarstw, 1-2 set.

• Place of issue: Warsaw
• Year of publication: 2004
• Publisher: Nobilis Publishing House
• Number of pages: 344; [345]-688
• Illustrations, maps: numerous illustrations in the text
• Size: 24 cm
• Binding: hard half leather with gilt on the spine, case, decorative lining
• Condition: very good
• ISBN: 83-917612-3-1

Description:

"A fascinating work about Polish culture, history and tradition seen through the prism of collecting treated as a bastion of patriotism. The humanism of the Renaissance and the legend of Pilsudski, national liberation uprisings and the Eastern Borderlands, the mythology of Romanticism and Sarmatism, crestomania and old-time countryside, anti-totalitarianism and art secrets, forgeries and apocrypha, Napoleonism and historicity, as well as other passionate homeland issues considered by the author - form a kind of literary cathedral of the glory of past Polishness, full of splendor, but also not free of shadows, which Lysiak does not indulge. Both volumes of Empireum are lavishly illustrated (more than 1,100 color reproductions) and published luxuriously, for connoisseurs." (From the Publisher www.nobilis.info.pl).