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RALSTON, William Ralston Shedden (1828-1889). The Songs of the Russian People, as Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and Russian Social Life. Second Edition. London: Ellis and Green, 1872.
8° (215 x 138mm). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, sides with gilt double fillet border, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Tsarskoe Selo (title stamp, pencilled shelf marks: '29/3', '13/6', and '13/7', the first two of these cancelled).
THE TSARSKOE SELO COPY of this key work by the century's most important promoter of Russian letters in Britain. His passion for ending British ignorance about Russia earned him the nickname 'Russian Don Quixote'. Ralston's Krylov and his Fables, published in 1869, 'was a landmark in the reception of Russian literature in Britain' (DNB); he also championed Tolstoy, and Turgenev, who considered Ralston's translation of his Dvorianskoe Gnezdo the best translation ever made of any work of his. This edition published in the same year as the first.
8° (215 x 138mm). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, sides with gilt double fillet border, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Tsarskoe Selo (title stamp, pencilled shelf marks: '29/3', '13/6', and '13/7', the first two of these cancelled).
THE TSARSKOE SELO COPY of this key work by the century's most important promoter of Russian letters in Britain. His passion for ending British ignorance about Russia earned him the nickname 'Russian Don Quixote'. Ralston's Krylov and his Fables, published in 1869, 'was a landmark in the reception of Russian literature in Britain' (DNB); he also championed Tolstoy, and Turgenev, who considered Ralston's translation of his Dvorianskoe Gnezdo the best translation ever made of any work of his. This edition published in the same year as the first.
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