WŁADYSŁAW TERMA: SCENES FROM LITHUANIAN LIFE [1870].

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Wladyslaw TERMA – Scenes from the Life of a Lithuanian
Poznań 1870, circulation of Jan Konstanty Żupański

The first edition of a collection of short stories by Wladyslaw Terma – a writer today almost completely forgotten, absent from the common bibliographic studies of Polish literature of the 19th century.
“Scenes from Lithuanian Life” is a series of pictures and short stories devoted to the everyday life, customs and landscapes of Lithuania – a country that, after the fall of the Commonwealth, held a special place in the Polish romantic imagination and literature of the period.
The book was published by Jan Konstanty Żupański (1804-1883) – a Poznan bookseller and publisher whose outhouse was one of the most important centers of the Polish publishing movement of the 19th century. Over the course of his career, Żupański published a total of some 600 titles, publishing the works of Mickiewicz, Lelewel and Kraszewski, among others, always ensuring the highest editorial care.
The item belongs to antiquarian rarities. A digital copy is available only in the Wielkopolska Digital Library; physical copies appear exceptionally sporadically on the market.
A must-have item for a collector of Polish literature of the 19th century, a lover of borderland subjects and a bibliophile looking for prints from the legendary Żupański’s outhouse.

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