PISMA ADAMA MICKIEWICZA Volumes I-V. Complete edition by the author's children published - FIRST PRINTINGS - RARE!
Printing House L.Marinet, Paris 1860-1861. Volume I - Ballads and romances. Sonnets. Poems and fables. Miscellaneous poems; p. 500.volume II - Grażyna. Conrad Wallenrod. Giaour. Crimean Sonnets. Sentences and notes; p. 330 . Volume III - Dziady; p. 431 - New Complete Edition, Paris -Leipzig 1861 Edition. volume IV - Pan Tadeusz. Books 1-6, p. 296: INCLUDES the first edition of the invocation! First edition of Pan Tadeusz with invocation! "Volume V - Pan Tadeusz. Book 7-12, pp. 269.
Contemporary half leather binding(in vol. IV the original booklet cover is preserved), stained upper page trim. In vol. IV lacks page 289/290 with Explanations; foxing- discoloration of paper characteristic of the period, stamps, few highlights in the text in places, signature onl. , soiling.
This edition was influenced by the decisions of the children based on the many notes, comments and corrections to the works that reviewing their father's notes eventually published in the edition.
