HUNEKER James - Chopin - Man and Artist - Lviv 1922 [bound by Aleksander Semkowicz].

JAMES HUNEKER

CHOPIN

The Man and the Artist

Lviv 1922

Cabinet binding - luxurious, half leather, five-panel spine with gilt titling, gilt tops of pages - unsigned binding by Aleksander Semkowicz.

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.

Condition of preservation very good: slight rubbing and soiling.

Number of pages: 312

Format: 21x15 cm

Only for the best collections.

Very rare.