A staple of 14 satirical magazines (13 complete), including 12 issues of 10 pp. (one defaced), Militia 24s., Puppets/Christmas - 12 p., format 33.5 x 25 cm.
a) Sowizdrzał. Satirical Illustrated Weekly. Staple of 12 complete issues from 1915-1919, plus one defect.
Warsaw.; Editor and publisher: Wladyslaw Nawrocki.; Typesetting and typesetting by Edmund Seroczynski.; Printing: (1915) "Polish Printing House" Press, Warsaw, Szpitalna 12; (1916-17) Printing House T. Jankowski, 54 Wspólna St.;(1919) Leon Nowak, Warecka 12.In R.1919 It was published in 1911 - R.9:1919, R.10:1927 - R.11:1928. ]
(b) Puppets. A weekly magazine of caricatures. Warsaw d. December 24, 1912, No. 4. Christmas.
For Editor and Publisher: Bronislaw Kopczynski; Print: Litografja i Druk "Ludowa" Krak.-Przedmieście 105 [the title appeared in the period 1912 No. 1 (Dec. 1) - 1913 No. 3 (Jan. 19)].
The stapled issues include:
ad (a) R.1915 No. 12. militia issue, November. Printed on paper from the company: Stanislaw Lawendel.
Format: 32 x 23 cm, 24 p., covers and illustrations on pp. 11 and 14 in chromolithography. Illustration authors: Henneberg, Lech Niemojewski, Edmund John. On p. 5 Lech Choromanski: Ballad of a Great Zealous Militiaman, on p. 7 a poem by Edward Kozikowski: On the Street.
R.6:1916 Nos. 40 (Oct. 8), 44, 41, 42 (br. p. 3/4), 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 51 (Dec. 24).
R.1917 no.5 (Feb. 4); R.1919 no.5 (Feb. 2).
in no.42 br.p.3/4. Condition: spine glued with gray paper, covers of no.12 of 1915 and no.40 of 1916 yellowed, with discoloration, minor discoloration on edges of other pieces. No. 40 of 1916 - part of lower right corner missing.
Covers and color illustrations inside issues in linoleorite technique. Illustration authors: Antoni Romanowicz, Wacław Zb. Czerny, Jan Ogórkiewicz, Stanisław Messyng, Czesław Młodzianowski, Antoni Grochowski.
ad b) Pieces of the magazine were sewn after the 1916 issues of Sowizdrzal:
Kukielki. A weekly magazine of caricatures. R.1912 No.4. Christmas issue of December 24.
The editor and publisher was the Warsaw-based graphic artist Bronislaw Kopczynski (1882 - 1964). The magazine was illustrated with colorful lithographs. On p.8 a full-page advertisement for the Adam Klimkiewicz Patheon depot, Warsaw, Wierzbowa 8, in chromolithography.
Newsprint, 12 p., format 33.4 cm.
Condition: numerous cracks and tears in margins (sometimes overlapping illustrations), small losses of paper(no loss of text), horizontal tear of page 6/7(1/2 width), last page, p. 11/12 of the magazine sewn by mistake at the end of a staple.
Very rare title. According to BN and NUKAT databases, only one issue recorded in Polish library collections, here described, in Ossolineum.



