Stanislaw WITKIEWICZ (1851-1915), Juliusz KOSSAK (1824-1899)

Warsaw - Cracow, 1912 [second expanded edition];
Gebethner and Wolff edition.
260 drawings in the text, 8 intaglio-prints, 6 color facsimiles from watercolors, portraits by Leon Wyczółkowski and Stanisław Witkiewicz.
Publisher's binding, 35 x 28 cm, titlepage embossed in gold, edges of pages gilded, embossed drawing by Juliusz Kossak and facsimile of Witkiewicz's signature on the face, light prints signed by J. Lowy in Vienna.
Preservation condition: minor soiling, otherwise very good condition.
The richest source of iconographic knowledge about Juliusz Kossak, containing 349 reproductions of the master's works, including many never later reproduced, written by Witkiewicz a year after Kossak's death.
Intaglio print - a general term for intaglio printing used in the creation of graphic techniques, including copperplates, etchings, aquatints, drypoint.