[Autographed by the author] Straus Jan Now Cover! + Cut. Photomontage on covers

Straus Jan, Now cover vol. 1-2, Oficyna Kolekcjoner, Warsaw 2021, pp. 376 + 602, dimensions 23.5 x 28 cm, hardcover designed by Wilhelm Sasnal, very good condition.

Jan Straus's book - "Now the cover !" is a pioneering study devoted to the history of Polish book covers. The extensive text is supplemented with more than 2,000 illustrations! The uniqueness of the work lies in its reliable and substantive discussion of the fate of the Polish cover, characterized by a clear continuity of graphic design for more than two hundred years, covering the period from the birth of this artifact (that is, from the end of the 18th century) until the outbreak of World War II. The book by Jan Straus, a bibliophile and collector, which can be confidently regarded as an attempt to sketch the history of Polish graphic design in the years 1800-1939, is an extremely important and rich study of the history of Polish cover art, all the more valuable because it is based on the author's own unique collections, collected over many decades.

Straus Jan, Cutting. Fotomontaż na okładkach w międzywojennej Polsce, 40000 malarzy Association, Warsaw 2014, p. 480, dimensions 12.5 x 16 cm, soft cover, very good condition, author's autograph on the pre-title page!

Jan Straus: born in 1946 in Jelenia Góra, raised in Milanowek intelligent in the fourth generation: great-grandson of Piotr, a Latin teacher at a high school in Kielce, and August Haertig, a factory owner of the largest dye house in Lodz; grandson of Jan, a writer and entrepreneur; nephew of Stefan, a satirist, theater historian and bibliographer; son of Jan Andrzej, an economist by training, who protected in Milanowek from destruction a linden avenue planted by his father that is now more than a century old (here, too, Kochanowski and literature bow down), Mechanical engineer (Ph.D. at the Warsaw University of Technology), former Director of Metallurgy at the Institute of Precision Mechanics in Warsaw, Director of the Central Engineering Board of the MWGZ or President of the Board of Ridi Poland, currently an inhabitant of the capital and a regular at the Warmian Groszkow - he has eaten his bread from more than one oven. He has always read books, buying and collecting them for more than 50 years; he has been interested in book art and collecting covers since the late 70s. He has managed to collect a library of several thousand, abounding in white ravens, dedicated to the culture of the old Republic of Poland. A member of the Society of Polish Bibliophiles in Warsaw since 1974, he willingly makes his collection available, organizes exhibitions, gives lectures and writes about books, because according to the old bibliophile tradition he believes: that he is only a temporary depository for them. Author of books: Adventure with errata, Cutting, a bibliography of borderland prints entitled Shadow of the Borderlands, and several private prints. Distinguished for Polish Culture currently cultivating his garden retired. Enthusiast of ancient folk art and erratic boulders. (The latter he no longer collects). Father of two daughters and grandfather. Full of joy of life catastrophist.