[COVERED BY HELENA KARPIŃSKA] OSSENDOWSKI- KARPATY from the series CUDA POLSKI original

OSSENDOWSKI Ferdinand Antoni

CARPATHIANS AND SUBCARPATHIANS

THE WONDERS OF POLAND

BEAUTIES OF NATURE

MONUMENTS OF LABOR MONUMENTS OF HISTORY

Polish Publishing House R. Wegner Poznan (no dating, this series was published in the 1930s).

Rare book from bibliophile series "Wonders of Poland" now practically unavailable on the market.

Lots of illustrations, mostly photos, illustrating the beauty of these lands, but also documenting the condition of towns and villages, the appearance of houses and people, household equipment, contemporary culture - that is, in the 1930s.

Books in this series also contain maps

HARDBACK HALF LEATHER BINDING OF THE PERIOD, SIGNATURE OF HELENA KARPINSKA. PRESERVED SOFT COVER BOOKLET.

Helena Karpinska née Pluzanska (1909-1997) learned bookbinding from Zofia Debicka: it was not appropriate to apprentice to a foreman.... Only in the autumn of 1931, as a result of an advertisement in the press, I enrolled in the bookbinding set of Mrs. Zofia Debicka, the wife of a well-known writer, who had a higher school of binding in Paris. (...) In the spring of 1932, I stopped attending the very expensive lessons of Mrs. Debicka, who, by the way, initiated me into the technique of hand gilding with leaf gold very reluctantly


(...) Her work was exhibited at the exhibition of the Bibliophile Society in 1936, and in 1939 was sent to the International Exhibition in New York. During the occupation, Karpinska supported herself by binding books. In 1945 she moved to Cieszyn and worked in several institutions, including as a librarian, but her main activity was book binding. In 1952 she passed the craft exam and officially registered her workshop, which she ran for only three years 1952-1955, generally working "at home"; she was well known in the bibliophile circle. She made her bindings by hand; due to her inability to procure high-quality raw material, she used parchment she received as a donation from Jewish books destroyed and profaned during the war. She dyed the bindings in various colors, and paid the greatest attention to decorating them with the traditional technique of hand gilding. From her modest stock of embossing tools, she created unique, very rich compositions that referred to Renaissance, Baroque and Classical styles. After the war she repeatedly exhibited her works and participated in competitions receiving awards: Wroclaw 1951, Warsaw 1964, Poznan 1977, she also had individual exhibitions in Wroclaw (Ossolineum 1973, National Museum 1983), in Cieszyn (1973, 1979, 1989) and in Bielsko-Biala" [in:] Elżbieta Pokorzyńska, EMANCYPATION OF WOMEN IN THEINTRIGATORY PROFESSION IN WARSAW AT THE END OF THE 19th AND BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY http://www.ksiaznicapodlaska.pl/site/bibliotekarz/28/3_Elzbieta_Pokorzynska.pdf dos. dn. 26.08

Ex libris of Witold Tubielewicz, the design of which w.y done by Danuta Dońska-Marciniak (b. 1925) - Polish artist specializing in the art of printmaking and woodcut. Graduate of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (1952). Closely associated with the land of Torun, where she created throughout her life and where she currently lives. In her work she used classical and color woodcut.

BDB-/ parish condition / LITTLEpieces