Pushkin illustrated
Publication: A. I. Mamontov and Chardon-Wittman, Paris (plates only), for V. G. Gote, Moskva, 1891.
£1,450
Very attractive copy of this typical example of Russian “artistic literature”, finely produced almost a century after Pushkin’s birth.
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Fresh example of this limited illustrated edition, one of 900 copies printed on vélin paper (this no. 914), signed by the publisher Gote (Gautier), out of a total edition of 1,000. Very well presented in a recent full calf binding richly gilt.
Provenance
Avenir Nizoff (pianist, book collector, who lived in Edmonton, Canada).
Item number
816
Tall 8vo (24.7 x 17 cm). 156, [2] pp. including title, [2] pp. half-title with limitation page on reverse, portrait frontispiece after Wright and 12 full-page engraved plates after Pavel [Petrovich] Sokolov, all engraved by Alphonse Lamotte and protected by tissue guards.
Binding
Recent full crushed brown calf, spine with raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt rollwork to covers and turn-ins.
Condition
Occasional light spotting.
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