Seweryn Goszczyński; Count Fryderyk Skarbek; Wilhelm Jordan, Kaniowski Castle; The Life and Adventures of Dodosiński; Mr. … [publisher’s block, 1874]

Translation (Agis’s Widow): Kazimierz Kaszewski (1825–1910) [literary critic, translator of philosophical classics and world drama]

Publisher: Published and printed by Salomon Lewental, Warsaw. Library of the Finest Works of European Literature.

Year of publication: 1874.

Format: 21 cm.

Volume: *Kaniowski Castle*: 270 pp.; *The Life and Adventures of Dodosiński*: 153 pp.; *The County Administrator*: 105 pp.; *Agisa the Widow*: 103 pp. [631 pp. in total, in one volume]

Binding: Period half-leather, with visible wear.

Four works published in 1874 by Salomon Lewental in the “Library of the Finest Works of European Literature,” bound together. “The Kaniów Castle” by Seweryn Goszczyński (1828) is a poetic novel about the kolishchizna, a peasant uprising in Ukraine in 1768, and one of the major works of the so-called Ukrainian school. Goszczyński took part in the attack on the Belvedere on November 29, 1830. “The Life and Adventures of Faustyn Feliks at Dodosze Dodosiński” by Fryderyk Skarbek—an economist, historian, and Fryderyk Chopin’s godfather—is a satirical novel about a Sarmatian landowner. Skarbek’s second work, *Pan Starosta*, offers an ironic portrayal of society in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The collection concludes with Wilhelm Jordan’s *The Widow of Agis*, a tragedy in three acts translated by Kazimierz Kaszewski.

There is a signature on the title page. Period half-leather binding with scuff marks.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.