Commemorative brochures and notelets published by Zakłady Graficzne Instytutu Wydawniczego “Biblioteka Polska” in the collection of the Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Bydgoszcz. A contribution to the history of the publisher
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Keywords

Commemorative brochures and leaflets
Printing industry
Editorship
Bookselling

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Nowicki, R. (2012). Commemorative brochures and notelets published by Zakłady Graficzne Instytutu Wydawniczego “Biblioteka Polska” in the collection of the Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Bydgoszcz. A contribution to the history of the publisher. Biblioteka, (16(25), 167–184. https://doi.org/10.14746/b.2012.16.6

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Abstract

Zakłady Graficzne Instytutu Wydawniczego “Biblioteka Polska” (Biblioteka Polska Publishing House) operated in Bydgoszcz between 1920–1939. The printing office was established by Władysław Kościelski, a member of the Wielkopolska landed gentry. It was one of the biggest and the most technically advanced publishing house in Poland of the inter-war period. “Biblioteka Polska”, with its seat in Warsaw, published works of several hundred Polish and foreign authors in publishing series. It publishing output was complemented with numerous commemorative brochures, leaflets and notelets issued along with the printed publications. This group of publications, addressed to a wide circle of receivers, was characterised by straightforwardness in the expression and legibility. Basically, they were to convey information or were issued for commercial or marketing purposes. They show a remarkable variation in terms of their content and topographical form (as regards the nature of ornamentation, graphical layout or typesetting). These leaflets had their share in the formation of the proper receiver of the book and the press, contributed to the formation of readership and the reader’s needs, and to promotion of literary and scientific output of writers and scholars. They were designed by renown graphic designers, including book illustrators. In all, they constitute valuable source material of documental, historical and aesthetic nature.
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