ŻEROMSKI Stefan - POPIOŁY Tom I-II [complete]. Historical novel of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth, illustrated edition, six color watercolors painted by Michal Borucinski, sixteen full-page single-color drawings, illustrations in the text, embellishments and cover by Edmund Bartlomiejczyk, likenesses of the manuscript of "Ashes," published by Jakób Mortkowicz, Warsaw-Krakow 1928 Towarzystwo Wydawnicze, pp. 370, [5], plates illustr. 10 (including 3 in color), portraits 2, f. faksym. 9, numerous embellishments in text; [4], 435, [4], tabl. illustr. 12 (including 3 color.), portraits, ff. fak. 2, numerous decorations in text.
Dimensions 30x23.5cm; pp.370, 436.Contemporary binding - full leather - richly decorated, stained page edges. Slight soiling, sparse foxing-discoloration of paper.
Thefirst illustrated, monumental, most beautiful edition of the Napoleonic epic by Stefan Zeromski (1864-1925). Bibliophile edition published by Jakub Mortkowicz in an edition of 1375 numbered pieces. Facsimiles of manuscripts of the novel at the end of both volumes.
