Silva Rerum. Monthly magazine of the Society of Book Lovers [exlibrises, bindings, bibliophilic prints].

Krakow 1939, Book Lovers Society. 20.5x26.5 cm, black and white and color illustrations and plates, soft booklet cover. Good condition (covers soiled, former owner's stamps undated, notebook 4 has paper loss in cover).

The set contains 9 consecutive issues of Silva Rerum from 1938-1939. Contents include: On the margin of Naruszewicz's works (Stanisław Wasylewski). King bibliophile (Mieczyslaw Opałek). Distribution of pamphlets by Słowacki and Mickiewicz in the era of the November Uprising (Ksawery Świerkowski). The printing signet of Andrzej Stanisław Kostka Załuski's outhouse (Kazimierz Witkiewicz). Polish musical ex libris (Edward Chwalewik). Engravings for books made by Jeremiah Falck (Rev. Tadeusz Kruszyński). About old Silesian libraries (Stanislaw Majewski). Merits of Polish booksellers in the history of national revival (Jan Wantuła). Silesian industry in artistic graphics. The work of Paweł Steller and Władysław Zakrzewski (Stefan Płuszczewski). Silesia in the artistic work of Michal Elvir Andriolli (Justyn Sokulski). On the Silesian ex librises of Edward Grabowski (Tadeusz Pietrykowski). Biesiadecki (Stanislaw Wasylewski). Alexander Bruckner (Franciszek Bielak).