CHROSTOWSKI S. O. - Exlibrises. 1937. 49 original exlibrises. 325 copies issued.

CHROSTOWSKI Stanislaw O[stoja] - Exlibrisy ... Text by Stanisław Woźnicki. Warsaw 1937. m. Arcta. 4, s. 137, [1]. Bound in period leather (?) with preserved brochure cover.
Grońska 128. cover abrasions, spine slightly cracked in lower part, inside very good condition. Published 325 copies, this one no. 44 signed by the artist. Ex-libris herald. Aleksander Orlowski. Critical introduction in Polish and French, small woodcut vignettes in the text. On boards within pagination, 49 original ex-librises from 1929-1936 in woodcut engraving on boxwood block. Among them, exlibrises for: Irena Potocka, Jan Zamoyski (2), Maurycy Potocki of Jabłonna, Mieczysław Treter, Józef Wittlin, Józef Piłsudski, Melchior Wańkowicz, Stanisław Arct, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, the National Library (2), the General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, his own (2). From a letter to P. Ettinger (September 21, 1937, in the collection of the Mus. of Plastic Arts in Moscow): "This is not a complete collection of my ex-librises - I still have 5 or 6 made by me already after the book was published." An excellent example of Chrostowski's artistry. Infrequent.