Nowakowski Zygmunt- Lajkonik [illustrations by Włodzimierz Bartoszewicz].

Lvov-Warsaw 1938/ Książnica Atlas/14.5x21cm/s.166/ black and white illustrations in the text/ bookbinding, half-canvas, gilt titling on the spine, original publisher's cover glued in/ very good condition-, minor rubbing of the binding, trimming of the publisher's cover, minor tear of the lower edge of the title page

"Zygmunt Nowakowski called his columns a hiccup of history, and perhaps this original definition best defines the value of his Sunday articles. (...) He is interested in everything: politics and theater, spelling and partitioned pensioners, judiciary and sports, literature and Kiepura.... (...) Humor, charm, lightness, the ability to flip into the most diverse forms - these are the qualities of Z. Nowakowski's masterful pen, which are present in full force in LAJKONIK." [publisher's note]

Wlodzimierz Bartoszewicz - graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Poznan in 1923 and the same year began his studies at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. He studied painting in the studio of Tadeusz Pruszkowski and printmaking with Władysław Skoczylas and Edmund Bartłomiejczyk. He was a co-founder and president of the fourteen-member "Warsaw School" group, established in 1929, which included Eugeniusz Arct, Teresa Roszkowska, Michal Bylina, Waclaw Palessa, Jadwiga Przeradzka, brothers Menasze and Efraim Seidenbeutl. The first exhibition of the "Warsaw School" took place at Warsaw's Zachęta in 1930. Later he took part in all the group's exhibitions at home and abroad. He also exhibited at the Zacheta, IPS and ZAP Block salons, and in 1936 participated in an exhibition in Berlin. He was a co-founder of the "Ars Christiana" association. After World War II, he organized cultural life in Kielce, initiating the establishment of a number of cultural institutions. In 1948 he settled in Poznan. He was involved in easel and wall painting (polychromes of churches in Greater Poland and the Old Market in Poznan), drawing and book illustrations. He is the author of a book dedicated to artists from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, "Buda na Powiślu" (published 1966).[source:desa.pl].