Better than thought

LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasilievich, Vasilii Kirillovich TREDIAKOVSKII and Alexander Petrovich SUMAROKOV

Choix des meilleurs morceaux de la littérature russe, à dater de sa naissance jusqu'au règne de Catherine II

Publication: Pilardeau for Lefort, Paris, 1800.

LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasilievich, Vasilii Kirillovich TREDIAKOVSKII and Alexander Petrovich SUMAROKOV, Choix des meilleurs morceaux de la littérature russe, à dater de sa naissance jusqu’au règne de Catherine II

Attractive example of the first French anthology of Russian literature, with some of the best authors of the 18th century.

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Very first anthology of Russian literature in French, published at the dawn of the its Golden Age, when Pushkin was a few months old. A fresh example, pleasantly bound.

An extensive preface details the translators’ aims and explains their literary choices; presenting a collection of classic Russian works to the French public for the first time, they wish to show the extent and the quality of Russian literature, which ‘n’est pas au point de dégradation où on la croit.’ The volume comprises a poem on the Strelitzes by Trediakovskii, ‘le premier poète russe’, some odes by Lomonosov and his important epic on Peter the Great, and Sumarokov’s tragedy Dmitrii the Pretender as well as one of his comedies, The Usurer. The work was translated (and signed) by Manuel Leonard Pappa Do Poulo and Pierre Gallet.

Item number

1811

 

Physical Description

Octavo (20 x 13 cm). pp. xxiii including half-title and title, errata page, 390, [2], half-title signed by publisher and translators.

Binding

Contemporary tree sheep, gilt borders to covers, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges, green silk bookmark.

Condition

Corners bumped and a bit worn, covers with small areas of abrasion neatly repaired; the odd spot.

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