Jan Rymarkiewicz, Poetry for Young Readers: A Collection by Various Authors [1860]

Size: 22 cm.

Number of pages: 166.

Binding: Period half-leather, with visible wear.

An anthology of poems for children compiled by Jan Rymarkiewicz, a participant in the November Uprising who later taught Polish for over thirty years at middle schools in Poznań. It contains lyric and didactic poetry by various authors, selected to cultivate the taste and sensitivity of young readers during a time of Germanization of the Prussian school system. It was published in 1860 by Jan Konstanty Żupański, a Poznań publisher who supported Polish education and scholarship.

There is a signature on the title page, and some notes on the endpaper.

There is an ink stain at the bottom of the first ten pages; a few pages are glued together, and the paper is discolored. The book has a period half-leather binding with scuff marks.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.