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Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki, The Powązki Cemetery near Warsaw. Vol. I–III. [1855–1858]
Title: The Powązki Cemetery near Warsaw. Vol. I–III.
Author: Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki (1807–1879) [writer, folklorist, and literary historian; collector of folk songs, proverbs, and legends; chronicler of cultural life in nineteenth-century Warsaw]
Publisher: S. Orgelbrand Printing House, Warsaw 1855–1858.
Year of publication: 1855 (Vol. I), 1856 (Vol. II), 1858 (Vol. III).
Format: 26 cm.
Volume: Vol. I: 261, [3] pp., [23] plates. Vol. II: 256 pp., [23] plates. Vol. III: [2] plates, XI, 264, XLII pp., [12] plates; 56 pp., [7] plates.
Binding: Period half-leather binding.
A study of the history and monuments of the Warsaw cemetery at Powązki, published by Samuel Orgelbrand’s printing house. Wójcicki announced the work in 1854 in the pages of *Biblioteka Warszawska*, where he published “an excerpt from a work still in manuscript form.” In it, the author combines descriptions of tombstones and their inscriptions with extensive biographies of those buried there. Among the figures discussed in Volume II is Hugo Kołłątaj. He also cites a plaque from the Szymanowski family grave, commemorating the donation in 1790 of part of the Szymanowski estate “to the public cemetery.” The volumes are illustrated with lithographs by Maksymilian Fajans (1827–1890), based on drawings by Alfons Matuszkiewicz (1822–1877), depicting graves, monuments, catacombs, and churches. Matuszkiewicz lithographed some of the plates himself: in the piece presented here, the plates in Volume II are signed as his drawings and lithographs. Volume III, published in 1858 under the expanded title “The Powązki Cemetery and Catholic and Other Denominational Cemeteries in and Around Warsaw,” also covered the remaining cemeteries in Warsaw and the surrounding area. The significance of this work is evidenced by a photo-offset reprint of the entire volume, published by Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe in 1974.
Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki was born on March 3, 1807, in Warsaw and died there on August 2, 1879. He studied in Warsaw, attending lectures by Kazimierz Brodziński and Ludwik Osiński. Beginning in 1827, he wrote for Warsaw newspapers, and in 1828 he co-edited the *Dziennik Warszawski*. He fought in the November Uprising. He became famous as a collector of folklore: he published *Przysłowia narodowe* (1830), *Songs of the People* (1836), and *Legends* (1837), as well as *Old Tales* (1840) and the four-volume *Outline of the History of Polish Literature* (1845–1846). He had known Frédéric Chopin personally since the 1820s.His memoirs and historical works remain a valuable source for the cultural history of nineteenth-century Warsaw.
Provenance: On the front endpaper is an ex-libris by Józef Zawadzki, a woodcut by Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann (1917–1980), a printmaker, painter, and illustrator, and a studentof the woodcut artist Stanisław Ostoi-Chrostowski. Born on October 28, 1917, in Warsaw, she studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts beginning in 1935. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 for distributing underground press, she was a prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp from 1942 to 1945. After the war, she illustrated over ninety books, and from 1965 onward she also created murals, particularly in religious interiors. She died on January 12, 1980, in Warsaw. No further details about the owner of the bookplate could be ascertained.
A set of three volumes of the classic monograph on Warsaw, *Powązek*, in period bindings, featuring lithographs by Fajans and Matuszkiewicz and a woodcut bookplate by Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann. An item for collectors of works on Warsaw, researchers of Warsaw’s history, genealogists, and bookplate enthusiasts.
Discoloration and rust spots on the pages. Bindings show minor wear. Volume II has undergone an amateur restoration of the binding and text block.
Catalog ID: 12073x1-26-C-Z
Title: The Powązki Cemetery near Warsaw. Vol. I–III.
Author: Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki (1807–1879) [writer, folklorist, and literary historian; collector of folk songs, proverbs, and legends; chronicler of cultural life in nineteenth-century Warsaw]
Publisher: S. Orgelbrand Printing House, Warsaw 1855–1858.
Year of publication: 1855 (Vol. I), 1856 (Vol. II), 1858 (Vol. III).
Format: 26 cm.
Volume: Vol. I: 261, [3] pp., [23] plates. Vol. II: 256 pp., [23] plates. Vol. III: [2] plates, XI, 264, XLII pp., [12] plates; 56 pp., [7] plates.
Binding: Period half-leather binding.
A study of the history and monuments of the Warsaw cemetery at Powązki, published by Samuel Orgelbrand’s printing house. Wójcicki announced the work in 1854 in the pages of *Biblioteka Warszawska*, where he published “an excerpt from a work still in manuscript form.” In it, the author combines descriptions of tombstones and their inscriptions with extensive biographies of those buried there. Among the figures discussed in Volume II is Hugo Kołłątaj. He also cites a plaque from the Szymanowski family grave, commemorating the donation in 1790 of part of the Szymanowski estate “to the public cemetery.” The volumes are illustrated with lithographs by Maksymilian Fajans (1827–1890), based on drawings by Alfons Matuszkiewicz (1822–1877), depicting graves, monuments, catacombs, and churches. Matuszkiewicz lithographed some of the plates himself: in the piece presented here, the plates in Volume II are signed as his drawings and lithographs. Volume III, published in 1858 under the expanded title “The Powązki Cemetery and Catholic and Other Denominational Cemeteries in and Around Warsaw,” also covered the remaining cemeteries in Warsaw and the surrounding area. The significance of this work is evidenced by a photo-offset reprint of the entire volume, published by Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe in 1974.
Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki was born on March 3, 1807, in Warsaw and died there on August 2, 1879. He studied in Warsaw, attending lectures by Kazimierz Brodziński and Ludwik Osiński. Beginning in 1827, he wrote for Warsaw newspapers, and in 1828 he co-edited the *Dziennik Warszawski*. He fought in the November Uprising. He became famous as a collector of folklore: he published *Przysłowia narodowe* (1830), *Songs of the People* (1836), and *Legends* (1837), as well as *Old Tales* (1840) and the four-volume *Outline of the History of Polish Literature* (1845–1846). He had known Frédéric Chopin personally since the 1820s.His memoirs and historical works remain a valuable source for the cultural history of nineteenth-century Warsaw.
Provenance: On the front endpaper is an ex-libris by Józef Zawadzki, a woodcut by Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann (1917–1980), a printmaker, painter, and illustrator, and a studentof the woodcut artist Stanisław Ostoi-Chrostowski. Born on October 28, 1917, in Warsaw, she studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts beginning in 1935. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 for distributing underground press, she was a prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp from 1942 to 1945. After the war, she illustrated over ninety books, and from 1965 onward she also created murals, particularly in religious interiors. She died on January 12, 1980, in Warsaw. No further details about the owner of the bookplate could be ascertained.
A set of three volumes of the classic monograph on Warsaw, *Powązek*, in period bindings, featuring lithographs by Fajans and Matuszkiewicz and a woodcut bookplate by Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann. An item for collectors of works on Warsaw, researchers of Warsaw’s history, genealogists, and bookplate enthusiasts.
Discoloration and rust spots on the pages. Bindings show minor wear. Volume II has undergone an amateur restoration of the binding and text block.
Catalog ID: 12073x1-26-C-Z
