Year of publication: 1823.<\/p>\n
Volume: 202, [2] pp.<\/p>\n
Size: 16 cm.<\/p>\n
Binding: Original period half-leather.<\/p>\n
Translator: \u201cThe Lonely Translator,\u201d a pseudonym attributed to Franciszek Salezy Dmochowski (1801\u20131871).<\/p>\n
An epistolary novel, published a year after Mickiewicz\u2019s *Ballads and Romances*. It is set in Barcelona during the yellow fever epidemic of 1821 (referred to as \u201cpowietrze\u201d in the Polish of the time): the city\u2019s quarantine serves as the backdrop for the tragic love story of two lovers, in the spirit of the sentimental literature popular at the time. It was published by the Zawadzki and W\u0119cki printing house in Warsaw. The translator, writing under a pseudonym, was most likely the young Franciszek Salezy Dmochowski, son of Franciszek Ksawery, who later became a writer, critic, and publisher.<\/p>\n
Provenance: on the front endpaper, a signature reading \u201cEleonora Mikoszewska\u201d and a second, smudged signature; on the following page, a pencil inscription reading \u201cDmochowski Franciszek Salezy\u201d; on the title page and back endpaper, illegible notes.<\/p>\n
A rare Warsaw print from the pre-Romantic era.<\/p>\n
The binding shows scuffs on the leather and edges; the spine is sturdy. There are traces of past water damage in the margins of the first dozen or so pages. The text block is intact, the print is legible, and there is foxing. The fold-out map of Barcelona is missing.<\/p>\n
An item from the 19th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Title: The Air in Barcelona, or The Last Letters of Two Lovers. Translated into Polish by \u201cThe Lonely Translator.\u201d
Author: HENARES P. [pseudonym of a supposed Madrid publisher; the identity of the actual author is unknown]
Translator: \u201cT\u0142\u00f3macz Samotnik\u201d \u2013 a pseudonym documented in the bibliography of Franciszek Salezy Dmochowski (1801\u20131871) as one of his well-known literary aliases
Publisher: At the Zawadzki and W\u0119cki Printing House, Warsaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4537],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-45660","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-foreign-literature","first","instock","sold-individually","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/45660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=45660"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=45660"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antykwariat-polski.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=45660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}