Aleksander Tyszyński, Polish Portraits: A Collection of Literary Sketches [1875]

Size: 20 cm.

Number of pages: 302.

Binding: Period half-leather, with a loss and a crack in the spine (the detached fragment is preserved inside). The binding is signed by the bookbinder “A. Sosnarski in Radom.”

One of the last works by Aleksander Tyszyński, an aesthetician, critic, and literary historian, co-founder of *Biblioteka Warszawska* and lecturer at the University of Warsaw. The essays deal, among other things, with Wincenty Kadłubek, Mikołaj Rej’s *Wizerunek* (1558), the works of Elżbieta Drużbacka, 18th-century Polish comedy, the poetry of Władysław Syrokomla, and the writings of Marcin Bielski and Szymon Starowolski. The book was published in the series “Library of the Finest Works of European Literature” by Salomon Lewental.

The title page and half-title page bear the stamp “From the J.W. Zambrzycki Collection, No. 72.” The binding is signed by the bookbinder “A. Sosnarski in Radom.”

The spine is cracked and has a missing section (the detached fragment is preserved inside). The block is intact; the paper is yellowed in places.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.