TOLSTOY - ANNA KARENINA illustrations by A. Uniechowski

TOLSTOY Lev

ANNA KARENINA
vol. I-II [complete],

illustrations by Antoni Uniechowski on separate plates

Warsaw 1954, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, pp. 602+532, format 13x20.5cm.

Antoni Uniechowski coat-of-arms Ostoja (born February 23, 1903 in Vilnius, died May 23, 1976 in Warsaw) - Polish illustrator. In 1923-1930 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Karol Tiche (painting) and Wojciech Jastrzębowski (designing solids and planes). He was involved in posters, film and theater set design, and above all book illustration; he created light and freehand ink drawings, lavished with watercolor, gouache or tempera; he illustrated, among other things, the Voltaire's Philosophical Poems (1948), Henryk Sienkiewicz's The Deluge (1949), Ignacy Krasicki's Monachomachia (1953), Stefan Żeromski's Ashes (1954), Bolesław Prus' Lalka (1962) and Emancypantki (1972), F.H Burnett's The Little Princess (1980). From 1945 to 1956 he collaborated with the weekly magazine Przekrój.

HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER, RICH GILT ON BOTH FACES, CONVEX GILT ON SPINE, TWO COLOR SIGNS, STRIKING GILT IN FIELDS; HAND MARBLED MARBLED PAPER ON ENDPAPERS; PAGE EDGES MARBLED WITH THE SAME PATTERN.

BDB CONDITION, BEAUTIFUL PIECE