BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF DISTINGUISHED POLISH PEOPLE AND POLES OF THE XIXTH CENTURY. Published through the efforts and circulation of Marya Chelmonska...

BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF DISTINGUISHED POLISH PEOPLE AND POLES OF THE XIXTH CENTURY. Published through the efforts and expense of Marya Chelmonska. Under the direction of the editorial committee consisting of : Szymon Askenazy, Bronisław Chlebowski, Samuel Dickstein, Wawrzyniec Benzelstjerna - Engeström, Bolesław Erzepki, Wojciech Gerson, Zygmunt Gloger, Kazimierz Gliński, Józef Kallenbach, Stanisław Van der Noot Kijeński, Władysław Korotyński, Stanisław Kramsztyk, Antoni Małecki, Maryan Massonius, Rev. Teofil Matuszewski, Józef Peszke, Henryk Piątkowski, Roman Plenkiewicz, Aleksander Poliński, Antoni Arkadyusz Puławski, Pius Weloński, Zygmunt Wolski. Secretary of the Editorial Board Jan Nitowski. Volume I - II. With a foreword by Stanislaw Krzeminski. W-wa 1901/1901. printed by P. Laskauer and W. Babicki.Format. Folio 24/32 cm. p. [2], IV, 496, [1], [14] p., with portraits on thick chalk paper. ; [2] f., 533, [3], [31] p., with portrait illustrations. Binding, publisher, fawn, plum color. Front cover and spine decorated with blackened Art Nouveau designs and gilt and embossed lettering, in volume one a tiny loss of cloth on the edge of the front cover. On the back binding embossed price : Binding price 2 Vol. 25, and bindery mark : Introlig. Pospieszna. Warsaw. Panska 20. tel. 155 27. Overall a very nice piece.