SIENKIEWICZ Henryk - Ogniem i mieczem. T. 1-2-3 (part 2). Warsaw 1884. printed by Wladyslaw Szulc and S-ki [First edition].

SIENKIEWICZ Henryk - Ogniem i mieczem. T. 1-2-3 (part 2). Warsaw 1884. printed by Wladyslaw Szulc and S-ki [First edition].

T. 1: contains pages: 17-387 (also lacks portrait of H. Sienkiewicz and title page); T. 2 contains: [4], 411; T. 3. ch. 1 contains pages: title card and pp. 1-16; T. 3. part 2 contains pages: [4], [451]-756. no binding.

Vol. 2. One card with corner loss, strong overbinding and loss of margins of last few pages. Stains, minor signs of flooding on a few pages. Browning of paper, characteristic of this edition. Last few pages loose.
Volume 3. Rust spots (foxing) in places. white spots in places. Browning of the paper, characteristic of this edition. Pencil notations in places (rare). Bend corners of several pages.
Attention. In ch.1, bookbinder's error: title page and pages 1-16 come from T. 3 (ch.1), while pp. 17-387 come from vol. 1! Rearrangement of several pages by the bookbinder in ch.2.

3 volumes of Henryk Sienkiewicz's superb historical novel, which is the first part of the Trilogy, written to gladden hearts in 1884-1888. Printing of the novel began in episodes simultaneously in the pages of "Słowo" and "Czas" in 1883.

The novel received an extraordinary reception from the public and critical praise.
As St. Tarnowski wrote: "[...] such a novel is not only an ornament and pride for literature, not only a masterpiece of art, not only a science of history accessible to everyone and unadulterated, but a cordyl of health for society, and thus a good, and, let us know openly, a great deed."