Author: REY Mikolaj
Title: Zwyerciádło albo Kstałt, w którym każdy stan snadnie sie może swym sprawam jako we źwierciedle przypatrzyć
- Place of publication: Kraków
- Year of publication: 1905
- Publisher: Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jagiellonian University Printing House
- Number of pages:[10], 29, [2], 30-274, [14].
- Illustrations, maps: numerous figural woodcuts, portraits, images of coats of arms and genre scenes in the text
- Size: 36 cm
- Binding: hard parchment stylized as an old binding, design on the face similar to the cardboard publishing cover designed by J. Bukowski, gilding on the faces and spine. The binding was made and stitched by Robert Jahoda.
- Condition: minor rubbing of binding, 1-2 pieces of pages loose - BEAUTIFUL piece!
Description:
A special, luxury piece.
Edition on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the poet's birth through the efforts of the Krakow Academy of Arts and Sciences, edited by J. Czubek and J. Łoś.
The edition includes the following works of Mikołaj Rej: Żywot człowieka poczciwego; Spólne narzekanie wszej Korony na porządną niedbałość naszę. (A short speech to every Christian man); Apoftegmata, to be short and prudent novels; A short speech to a decent Pole of the knightly state; The sure armor of every Christian knight; To an honest and attentive Pole a short and friendly admonition; Farewell to the world; Life and affairs of ... Mikołaj Rej of Nagłowice.
This is the first critical reprint of Rej's entire work, similar in layout to the 1568 edition from M. Wirzbięta. The text includes numerous figural woodcuts, portraits, images of coats of arms and genre scenes.
