Julian Sołtyk-Romański (ed.), *A Wreath of Slavic Poets*, Vol. I [1887]

Poetic translation: Bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński (1810–1891) [Bishop of Vilnius, exiled to Siberia (Vyatka, 1863–1882/83), poet and philologist, awarded an honorary doctorate from Jagiellonian University in 1887 and an honorary member of the Academy of Learning], from Old Russian

Publisher: Czcionkami Drukarni Ludowej, Lviv

Year of publication: 1887. A reprint of an earlier translation.

Volume: XXXI + 140 pp.

Size: 22 cm.

Binding: Period full-cloth binding.

Editor: Julian Sołtyk-Romański.

Volume I “The Wreath of Slavic Poets” includes “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” the most important literary monument of 12th-century Old Russian literature, recounting Prince Igor Svyatoslavich’s failed campaign against the Polovtsians in 1185. The text is presented in two languages: the original and a poetic translation by Bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński, who was in exile in Vyatka from 1863 to 1883.

A must-read for Slavicists and lovers of early East Slavic literature.

The block (171 pp.) is intact and complete. The original cloth binding requires repair: the block has come away from the cover because the original glue has dried out.

An item from the 19th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.