MATEJKA'S LETTERS TO WIFE TEODORA 1863-1881 - Krakow 1921 [bound by Aleksander Semkowicz].

MATEJKO'S LETTERS TO HIS WIFE TEODORA

1863 - 1881

Cracow 1927

Printed 100 numbered pieces, on vellum paper and 900 pieces on woodless paper at the National Printing House in Cracow. - No. 88.

Exclusive binding - cabinet, full leather, spine divided into five fields, two of which have gilded titulature, numerous embossments and gilded titulature on the face, gilded tops of the pages, characteristic lining used in Aleksander Semkowicz's factory. - binding unsigned.

Aleksander Semkowicz - born. June 17 in Tłustem - died July 8, 1954 in Warsaw - bookbinder, Polish bibliographer, lover of Adam Mickiewicz's literature, senator in the Second Republic, originator and initiator of the establishment of the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw. author of the first bibliography on the works of the bard. In 1912 he became head of the first Ossolineum bookbindery in Lviv. To this day, the Ossolineum stores works protected by artistic book bindings made by Semkowicz. The most famous is the red binding of the manuscript "Pan Tadeusz" by Adam Mickiewicz in 1940. He also made mesmerizing bindings for more than a dozen incunabula and prints published in the 16th century. - including the "Postylla" by Nicolaus Rej. He drew inspiration from Gothic and Renaissance bookbinding.

Good+ condition : spine with minor damage to top, minor rubbing and soiling.

Number of pages: 213

Format: 21x15 cm