With Pushkin's lifetime illustrations
Publication: Fedorov, Skt. Peterburg, 1924.
Attractive example of this large-format illustrated edition of Pushkin’s poem.
£195
In stock
Charming large-format edition of Pushkin’s famous poem ‘Gypsies’ first published in 1827, and here illustrated by the Estonian artist Friedrich Ludwig von Maydell (1795-1846), who created the drawings during Pushkin’s lifetime. The text was published preserving all the orthographic features as it was in the second publication of 1835.
A fresh example of this production of good quality, appearing the year of Lenin’s death, just after Russia’s brutal Civil War.
Provenance
Avenir Nizoff (émigré, pianist, who lived in Edmonton, Canada, in the second half of the 20th century, and gathered a large, wide-ranging library of Russian works, especially covering art, history and literature).
Item number
513
Quarto (31 x 24 cm). 42, 11 b&w plates.
Binding
Original publisher’s wrappers.
Condition
Wrappers creased at extremities.
Scarce architectural work by one of the leading architects of the Russian empire under Tsar Paul 1st, and responsible for some of the most famous buildings in St. Petersburg and Odessa.
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Celebrated book on Polish (and Ukrainian, Lithuanian etc.) costumes, especially interesting for its political text and context, often overlooked. Plates with attractive hand-colour - a fine example of the first edition.
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A great example of this lovely production: one of 10 copies on 'papier japon', with a supplementary print, loose and inscribed by Lebedeff.
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