Format: 17 cm.
Volume: Eckstein—p. 180; Bovet—p. 184 (364 pp. total).
Binding: period half-leather, leather spine with gilt title lettering.
Two works published as novel supplements to the weekly magazine *Biesiada Literacka* (ed. Grzegorz Czernicki), bound together. “The Unemployment of Flutists” (1892) by Ernst Eckstein, a German author of novels set in antiquity, is a social drama about Roman flutists. “The Emerald Isle” (1893) by Anna Bovet is set in 19th-century Ireland and deals with family dramas and misalliances.
The book is in clean condition, with some discoloration on the pages and worn corners on the covers.
Item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.
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