Authors: TOKARZEWICZ J\u00f3zef, pen name Hodi (1841\u20131919) [journalist, writer, participant in the January Uprising, \u00e9migr\u00e9 in Paris, soldier in the National Guard during the Siege of Paris]; Victor [Wiktor] HUGO (1802\u20131885) [French Romantic writer, deputy to the National Assembly, eyewitness to the Spring of Nations]<\/p>\n
Publishers: A. T. Jezierski Printing House, Warsaw 1900 (In Times of War and Famine); Dzie\u0142a Wyborowe Printing House, Warsaw 1899 (Things Seen)<\/p>\n
Size: 18.5 cm.<\/p>\n
Volume: In the Days of War and Famine: 159 pp.; Things Seen, vols. I\u2013II: 159 pp. [two titles in one volume]<\/p>\n
Binding: Period half-leather.<\/p>\n
Two accounts by eyewitnesses to history, bound together. J\u00f3zef Tokarzewicz (pen name Hodi), a participant in the January Uprising, settled in Paris after the uprising\u2019s defeat and edited Polish \u00e9migr\u00e9 publications there. He survived the siege of Paris in 1870 and the famine that gripped the city; \u201cIn the Days of War and Famine\u201d is a literary account of those experiences. Victor Hugo\u2019s \u201cThings Seen 1848\u20131849\u201d consists of the writer\u2019s\u2014then a deputy to the National Assembly\u2014notes on the February Revolution, the June Days, and the decline of the Second Republic, written as events unfolded.<\/p>\n
Both titles were published in Warsaw: *Rzeczy widziane* at the Drukarnia Dzie\u0142 Wyborowych printing house (1899), and *W dniach wojny i g\u0142odu* at A. T. Jezierski\u2019s printing house (1900).<\/p>\n
There is a faded owner’s signature on the endpaper. Period half-leather binding.<\/p>\n
An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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