3., Gawlewicz Maryan, Stachiewicz Piotr - Queen of Heaven. Folk legends about the Mother of God. [Puget binding][first edition,1894].

Warsaw 1894/ Gebethner i Wolff/24x33cm/s.156/ first edition/ XII boards with heliogravure reproductions of Stachiewicz paintings/ binding from the epoch ( by Jan Franciszek Puget), half leather, embossed and gilded titula on the front and spine, gilded page edges/ very good condition, small abrasions of the binding edges, small soiling of single pages

Binding of Jan Franiciszek Puget, one of the most respected Warsaw bookbinders at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (signature of the firm on the blank pre-title page)

Beautiful Marian album with text by M. Gawalewicz and illustrations by P. Stachiewicz. Decorative initials, finials, vignettes. On the plates heliogravure reproductions of paintings by Stachiewicz: Virgin of the flower, In the stable, In the flight to Egypt, Sowing, Assumption, On the starry road, On the thorny road, Saturday ray, Yarn of the Mother of God, Wedding garlands, Thunderbirds, Singer of the Mother of God.