Zawiszanka Zofia- Przedziwny wódz (novel about Joan of Arc)

Poznan 1948/ St. Adalbert'sBookstore/14.5x21cm/s.204/ print run of 5150 pieces/ illustrations (woodcuts) outside the text/ binding, full leather, gilt titling on the spine with raised scrolls, pasted original publisher's cover/ very good condition, minor soiling of single pages

Biographical novel about St. Joan of Arc

First edition

Elegant bookbinding

Cover design and woodcuts by Edward Kuczynski

Edward Kruszyński (born October 20, 1905 in Voroncza, died August 23, 1958 in Gdansk) - Polish graphic artist specializing in woodcuts, book illustrator (including for R. Wegner's Polish Publishing House and St. Adalbert's Printing House and Bookshop), designer of stamps, ex-librises and other applied graphics. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius (1927-1934), after which he began working as a drawing teacher at the School of Arts and Crafts. He received his diploma in graphic design in 1939. After World War II, he worked in the Department of Graphic Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, where he was vice-dean from 1952 to 1954, and then dean (1954-1956).