Excerpt from Cracow, the Royal Capital of Ancient Poland: Its History and Antiquities Ancient civilization and art, to take the rank among famous historical towns which it is the purpose of this work to establish for it in the opinion of the international public. The bulk of the book is based, and most of the illustrations are taken from a collective monograph on the town's glorious past, published in 1904, by the Cracow Society of Antiquaries (towarzystwo mifofni/eo'w historyi i zabytka'w Krakowa), a result of the co Operative labours of Prof. S. Krzyianowski (on the general history of the town), Dr. S. Tomkowicz (on Cracow's intellectual life), Dr. A. Chmiel (on the municipal organization and the craft-guilds), Prof. F. Kopera and Prof. K. Gorski (on archi tecture), Dr. J. Muczkowski (on sculpture), and L. Lepszy (on painting, applied art, and commerce). For details of architectural history, the standard work of A. Essenwein has been consulted. In order to make the book acceptable to the foreign reader the matter of the collective work first mentioned has been condensed into what claims to be, to some extent, an in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.