Wincenty Pol, Works in Verse and Prose, Vol. V (Poems, Vol. III) [1876]

Author: POL Wincenty (1807–1872) [Polish Romantic poet, geographer, participant in the November Uprising decorated with the Virtuti Militari Cross, author of *Pieśni o ziemi naszej* and *Mohort*, one of the architects of 19th-century Polish geographical and landscape imagination]

Publisher: Family-Owned and Published, Printed by F. H. Richter, Lviv

Year of publication: 1876. First complete edition.

Size: 24 cm.

Binding: Period half-leather.

A volume from the ten-volume collected works of Wincenty Pol, published in Lviv between 1875 and 1878 by F. H. Richter as the first complete edition, several years after the poet’s death, with the notation “Owned and Published by the Family.” Volume V, the third in the “Poezye” series, contains lyrical and epic works in which Pol combined patriotic fervor with a detailed, geographical description of his native landscape. His poetry shaped Polish perceptions of the homeland and the old nobility for a long time.

Provenance: The frontispiece bears a stamp and the signature “Władysław Elterlein.”

Discoloration and stains on the pages.

An item from the 19th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.