Borshchak, Il'ko and Sviatoslav Hordyns'kyi, artist.

[WEST UKRAINIAN AVANT-GARDE BOOK DESIGN] Velykyi mazepynets' Hryhor Orlyk, general-poruchnyk Liudovyka XV-ho (1742-1759) [The great Mazepaite Hryhor Orlyk, lieutenant general of Louis XV (1742-1759)].

L'viv: Vydavnycha Kooperatyva "Chervona Kalyna", 1932. Octavo (21.7 × 15 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers by Sviatoslav Hordyns'kyi; 206, [1] pp. Three leaves of plates. Light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; some overall soil; private owner signature; still about very good. Item #51999

Volume four in this series on French-Ukrainian cultural relations (Frantsiia i Ukraina: studii pro franko-ukrains'ky vzaemnyny v mynulomu). "Ilko Borshchak was a historian from the Kherson gubernia who had been secretary of the UNR delegation to the Paris peace conference in 1919. He remained in the French capital where he devoted himself to the study of the Ukraine in the eighteenth century and Franco-Ukrainian relations" (C. Gilley, The 'Change of Signposts' in the Ukrainian Emigration, p. 334). In Paris, he went by Elie Borschak.

The designer of the wrappers, Sviatoslav Hordyns'kyi (1906-1993), was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, poet, and translator, who studied art in Berlin and Paris, and went on to exhibit widely abroad. In 1944 he fled to Germany, and after 1947 he lived in the United States.

As of April 2022, KVK, OCLC show eight copies in North America.

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