KASPROWICZ Jan
ROBBER DANCE
Four boards, initials, endings and cover made in woodcut by Wladyslaw Skoczylas.
Warsaw-Krakow 1929. Wyd. J. Mortkowicz, pp. [4], 32, [4], plates fig. 4 (woodcuts, including 2 fold-outs), initials and finials in woodcut, format 25.5x31.5 cm, original booklet.
Typographically beautiful print. The original woodcuts by Skoczylas illustrating the poem are among the most famous works by this artist!
The cover is decorated with a full-page "Robber jumping over the fire" (woodcut titles after: T. Cieślewski son "Władysław Skoczylas, initiator and creator of contemporary woodcut in Poland", War. 1934, p. 113) with the title and the name of the book's author embedded, four woodcuts on plates: "In the brick cellar", "Robbers' march" (fold-out), "Love scene" and "Robbers under the castle" (fold-out), four vignettes: "Robber with a shotgun", "Tree" (reflected twice), "Gallows", "Mogilka", four initials: B - "Robber with a ciupaga", A - "Girl crying", H - "Mountains", Z - "Orava Castle".
Uncirculated. Circulation 1200 copies.
BDB-/condition, spine tears at extremities, cover edges bent, NICE piece.
Pasted on back cover woodcut Exlibris of artist Zbigniew Kaliszczak, signed in pencil No. 188.
