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Zadushevnoe slovo. Chtenie dlia starshago vozrasta. [The Sincere Word. Reading for Older Children.] New Series. Volume 8. St. Petersburg: M.O. Vol'f, 1913.
8° (247 x 180mm). Frontispiece, illustrations throughout, a few with touches of colouring, possibly in Anastasiia's hand. (Margins browned, half-title detached.) Original blue cloth, upper side and spine blocked in gilt and blue, lower side blocked in blind (extremities rubbed, front free endpaper detached, hinges repaired). Provenance: Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (presentation inscription, dated Christmas, Tsarskoe Selo, to:) -- Anastasiia Nikolaevna (1901-1918; label of the schoolroom of the younger Grand Duchesses at Alexander Palace) -- 'Printed in Russia' (small import stamp).
FIRST EDITION. GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIIA'S COPY, with a pencil drawing laid-in, probably in her hand, showing a hospital scene, possibly sketched while Anastasiia accompanied her older sisters and mother on their rounds. Zadushevnoe slovo was one of the most prominent, and longest running children's magazines of the period. This volume includes a number of contributions by Lidiia Charskaia, whose name is underlined at various places in the index -- the author may have been a favourite of Anastasiia's, who also owned copy of Dzhavakhovskoe gniezdo (see lot 21).
8° (247 x 180mm). Frontispiece, illustrations throughout, a few with touches of colouring, possibly in Anastasiia's hand. (Margins browned, half-title detached.) Original blue cloth, upper side and spine blocked in gilt and blue, lower side blocked in blind (extremities rubbed, front free endpaper detached, hinges repaired). Provenance: Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (presentation inscription, dated Christmas, Tsarskoe Selo, to:) -- Anastasiia Nikolaevna (1901-1918; label of the schoolroom of the younger Grand Duchesses at Alexander Palace) -- 'Printed in Russia' (small import stamp).
FIRST EDITION. GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIIA'S COPY, with a pencil drawing laid-in, probably in her hand, showing a hospital scene, possibly sketched while Anastasiia accompanied her older sisters and mother on their rounds. Zadushevnoe slovo was one of the most prominent, and longest running children's magazines of the period. This volume includes a number of contributions by Lidiia Charskaia, whose name is underlined at various places in the index -- the author may have been a favourite of Anastasiia's, who also owned copy of Dzhavakhovskoe gniezdo (see lot 21).
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