Odyniec Anthony Edward- Isora. A drama in 3 acts. [First edition][Warsaw 1829].

Warsaw 1829/W Drukarnia A. Gałęzowskiego i Komp/ first edition/15x22cm/s. 110/ binding, half-leather, gilt titling on spine, original publisher's covers pasted on/ reasonably good condition, pages glued with bookbinding tape, including publisher's cover, soiling, page foxing (rust spots), upper edges of pages- 46-110 bear traces of flooding, small losses of upper edges of two pages.

Set in the Middle Ages, a chivalric drama set in one of the Rhine castles. The work of Antoni Odyniec (1804-1885), poet, philaret, friend of A. Mickiewicz, his admirer and follower.

Mickiewicz got to know the drama "Isora" while it was still in manuscript and evaluated it negatively, and so did another friend of A. Odyniec, Juliusz Słowacki: "a work of great volume and very little merit." Historian M. Szyszkowski, however, "accorded the drama some importance as one of the early efforts to dismantle the ossified classical structure in favor of a new type of theatrical production" (PSB).