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FONVIZIN, Denis Ivanovich (c.1744-1792). Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. [The Complete Collected Works.] Edited by Platon Beketov. Moscow: Semen Selivanovskii, 1830.
The first complete collected edition. Fonvizin was one of the most distinguished authors during the reign of Catherine II. This edition comprises Fonvizin's great comedies, including 'The Brigadier', described by Nikita Panin as 'our first great comedy of manners', and previously unpublished works, including his strikingly revealing 'Open-hearted Confession', and various poems and letters. This edition is only preceded by an incomplete, one-volume edition published in 1829. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. WorldCat locates only three copies in institutional collections outside of Russia.
Four volumes in two, octavo (214 x 132mm). With the half-titles; engraved portrait frontispiece by E. O. Skotnikov; lithographed leaf of facsimile manuscript (mostly marginal light spotting). Contemporary Russian mottled calf with red morocco spines, flat spines gilt in compartments (spine caps chipped; extremities rubbed; first volume lacking the rear free endpaper). Provenance: 'V.O.' (Cyrillic initials at foot of spines; perhaps Count Vladimir Odoevskii, 1803-1869) – Litfond (bookseller's ticket and stamps, dated 1949) – Robert Argent Longmire (1923-1992, Kremlinologist, scholar; signature, dated Leningrad, April 1951).
The first complete collected edition. Fonvizin was one of the most distinguished authors during the reign of Catherine II. This edition comprises Fonvizin's great comedies, including 'The Brigadier', described by Nikita Panin as 'our first great comedy of manners', and previously unpublished works, including his strikingly revealing 'Open-hearted Confession', and various poems and letters. This edition is only preceded by an incomplete, one-volume edition published in 1829. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. WorldCat locates only three copies in institutional collections outside of Russia.
Four volumes in two, octavo (214 x 132mm). With the half-titles; engraved portrait frontispiece by E. O. Skotnikov; lithographed leaf of facsimile manuscript (mostly marginal light spotting). Contemporary Russian mottled calf with red morocco spines, flat spines gilt in compartments (spine caps chipped; extremities rubbed; first volume lacking the rear free endpaper). Provenance: 'V.O.' (Cyrillic initials at foot of spines; perhaps Count Vladimir Odoevskii, 1803-1869) – Litfond (bookseller's ticket and stamps, dated 1949) – Robert Argent Longmire (1923-1992, Kremlinologist, scholar; signature, dated Leningrad, April 1951).
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