[Puget binding, special edition] MOŚCICKI Henryk - Generał Jasiński. Cracow 1917.

Author: MOŚCICKI Henryk

Title: Generał Jasiński

• Place of issue: Warsaw
• Year of publication: 1917
• Publisher: Gebethner and Wolff publishing house
• Number of pages: [4], 435
• Illustrations, maps: 4 illustration plates, plan (fold-out), numerous pasted illustrations in the text (including 4 hand-colored)
• Size: 24.5 cm
• Binding: hard half leather (also corners), richly gilded and decorated spine, signboard, marbled edges of pages, decorative lining, bookmark in form of ribbon, preserved front and back booklet cover, binding signed on the back board with sticker "Tow. Kom. Puget, Jarzyna i Ska, Warsaw, Zakł. Introligat."
• Condition: minor rubbing of the binding, minimal loss on the spine of the binding (top) - otherwise VERY nice condition , EGZ. SPECIAL IN BEAUTIFUL BINDING
• ISBN: ---

Description:

Piece No. 112. one of 125 pieces on handmade paper, with illustrations made outside the text (pasted in) and 4 hand-colored engravings.

Detailed biography, based on historical sources, of General Jakub Jasinski, hero of the Kosciuszko Uprising, killed during the storming and slaughter of Prague in 1794. Zdzislaw Lubomirski (1865-1943), president of Warsaw (1915-1917), member of the Regency Council of the Kingdom of Poland (1917-1918), senator of the Republic of Poland.

"...The work received positive reviews from Wacław Sobieski, Władysław Konopczyński and Tadeusz Korzon, who presented it for the J. Natanson Prize" (PSB)

Rare special copy in beautiful binding!