NOVIKOV, N.I. (publisher). Drevniaia Rossiiskaia Vivliofika [Old Russian Library, containing a Collection relating Russian historical, geographical and genealogical Antiquities ... Second edition corrected]. Moscow, 1788-91. 20 vols., 8vo, later half calf, rubbed; lacking the 2 folding tables from vol.18 and that from vol.19. (20)

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NOVIKOV, N.I. (publisher). Drevniaia Rossiiskaia Vivliofika [Old Russian Library, containing a Collection relating Russian historical, geographical and genealogical Antiquities ... Second edition corrected]. Moscow, 1788-91. 20 vols., 8vo, later half calf, rubbed; lacking the 2 folding tables from vol.18 and that from vol.19. (20)

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Expanded from the 10-volume first edition of 1773-75, this edition, printed with a tirage of some 1200 copies, contains articles on geography, economics and topography, as well as literature, history and theology. Novikov, the printer at the Moscow University Press, was arrested in 1792 for his masonic activities. Svodnyi katalog Periodicals 148 (first variant of vol.V and X); Lisovskii 76; Bitovt 2190 ("of great rarity complete"); Drage 182.