Our Notes & References
First edition of this famous work, Akhmatova’s fourth poetry collection – one of only 60 ad nominem copies, printed for Savelii Isaakovich Grinberg, brother-in-law of the publisher, Yakov Blokh, who owned the active Petropolis publishing house. Originally from St Petersburg, but educated at Cambridge before and after World War I, Grinberg became administrator of Petropolis once in Berlin; he moved to Holland in 1932, and settled in England in 1934 where he became a manufacturer.
In a charming small format, with a celebrated cover design by Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, a member of Diaghilev’s Mir Iskusstva group of innovative artists.
Provenance
From the estate of Savelii Grinberg (1896-1985).
Bibliography
Kilgour 7; Tarasenkov p.24; Lesman 136; Rozanov 2061.
Item number
2195