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PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837) – Nevskii al’manakh na 1828 god. [The Nevskii Almanac for the year 1828.] St Petersburg: at the press of the Department of Public Education [1827].
The first edition of this rare periodical with contributions by Pushkin: a passage from Boris Godunov illustrated with an original engraved plate, and the first publication of the poem 'Vozrozhdenie' and of three moralizing quatrains: 'Obshchaia sudba', 'Bezvrednaia ssora', and 'Zakon prirody'. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction; WorldCat locates only one copy, at Waterloo University (possibly incomplete). Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Pushkin 69.
Octavo (126 x 94mm). Engraved additional title, frontispiece and 2 plates (engraved title trimmed by binder with minor loss in the bottom margin; occasional light scattered spotting). 19th-century Russian green half leather over purple board stamped with a foliate pattern, blue coated endpapers, edges sprinkled red (joints and corners lightly rubbed).
The first edition of this rare periodical with contributions by Pushkin: a passage from Boris Godunov illustrated with an original engraved plate, and the first publication of the poem 'Vozrozhdenie' and of three moralizing quatrains: 'Obshchaia sudba', 'Bezvrednaia ssora', and 'Zakon prirody'. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction; WorldCat locates only one copy, at Waterloo University (possibly incomplete). Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Pushkin 69.
Octavo (126 x 94mm). Engraved additional title, frontispiece and 2 plates (engraved title trimmed by binder with minor loss in the bottom margin; occasional light scattered spotting). 19th-century Russian green half leather over purple board stamped with a foliate pattern, blue coated endpapers, edges sprinkled red (joints and corners lightly rubbed).
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