Józef Tokarzewicz; Victor Hugo, In the Days of War and Famine; Things Seen, 1848–1849 [publishing block, 1899–1900]

Authors: TOKARZEWICZ Józef, pen name Hodi (1841–1919) [journalist, writer, participant in the January Uprising, émigré in Paris, soldier in the National Guard during the Siege of Paris]; Victor [Wiktor] HUGO (1802–1885) [French Romantic writer, deputy to the National Assembly, eyewitness to the Spring of Nations]

Publishers: A. T. Jezierski Printing House, Warsaw 1900 (In Times of War and Famine); Dzieła Wyborowe Printing House, Warsaw 1899 (Things Seen)

Size: 18.5 cm.

Volume: In the Days of War and Famine: 159 pp.; Things Seen, vols. I–II: 159 pp. [two titles in one volume]

Binding: Period half-leather.

Two accounts by eyewitnesses to history, bound together. Józef Tokarzewicz (pen name Hodi), a participant in the January Uprising, settled in Paris after the uprising’s defeat and edited Polish émigré publications there. He survived the siege of Paris in 1870 and the famine that gripped the city; “In the Days of War and Famine” is a literary account of those experiences. Victor Hugo’s “Things Seen 1848–1849” consists of the writer’s—then a deputy to the National Assembly—notes on the February Revolution, the June Days, and the decline of the Second Republic, written as events unfolded.

Both titles were published in Warsaw: *Rzeczy widziane* at the Drukarnia Dzieł Wyborowych printing house (1899), and *W dniach wojny i głodu* at A. T. Jezierski’s printing house (1900).

There is a faded owner’s signature on the endpaper. Period half-leather binding.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.