SIENKIEWICZ Henryk - Krzyżacy - Warsaw 1900 [1st edition + binding].

HENRY SIENKIEWICZ

KRZYŻACY

A NOVEL IN FOUR VOLUMES

JUBILEE EDITION

WARSAW 1900

EDITION BY GEBETHNER & WOLFF

EDITION I

The book was published in the jubilee year of Sienkiewicz's 25th anniversary of his writing career (hence the JUBILEO EDITION on the title pages)

The novel was seen as a clear protest against the policy of Germanization carried out by the authorities in the lands of the Prussian partition.

It is interesting to note that the stylization of the language of KRZYŻAKS is based not so much on medieval Polish, which was little known at the time the novel was written, but on the highland dialect of Zakopane!

The immense popularity of the work is evidenced by the fact that KRZYŻACY was one of the first books reissued in Poland after the end of World War II.

VERY GOOD state of preservation:

Cabinet contemporary bookbinding:

Half-leather with green-brown marbling, gilt and embossing, new boards, block re-stitched.

Cards soiled in places, last page in volume IV contemporary reprint.

Format: 18x13x8 cm

Number of pages: 338+268+339+357

SET IN TWO VOLUMES

Rare.