MATEJKO Jan - Album (by Jan Matejko). With explanatory text by Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki [1876].

Warsaw 1876, printed and printed by S. Leventhal. 45x66.5, set of 48 plates, (4), publisher's hardcover with decorations and gilt. Condition (repaired binding, contemporary half-leather spine, new boards, a few pages glued, minor stains except for figures).

Complete album of Jan Matejko's woodcuts of paintings. Added to each plate is a page with explanatory text by Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki (1807-1912). Among the woodcuts are portraits of, among others, Jan Kochanowski, Nicolaus Copernicus, Jan Odrowąż and many others. They were engraved by the greatest masters: Piotr Dyamentowski, Aleksander T. Regulski ,Józef Holewiński, Jan Styfi, Michał Kluczewski, Kazimierz Krzyżanowski, Andrzej Zajkowski.