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PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837) – Severnye Tsvety na 1825 god. [Northern Flowers, for the Year 1825.] St Petersburg: at the Press of the Department of Public Education, 1825.
The first edition of the rare first issue. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. Northern Flowers is one of the most celebrated 19th-century Russian almanacs, edited by Pushkin's great friend Delvig. Contributions by Pushkin in this volume include the first appearance of four passages from part 2 of Eugene Onegin, and three poems: 'Pesn o veshchem Olege', 'Demon', and 'Proserpina'. The fragments from Onegin were intended, among other things, to whet the audience's appetite for the serial publication of this work, which was issued in parts between 1825 and 1832. This issue also includes a number of fables by Krylov. The publication of this inaugural volume of Northern Flowers was delayed by the terrible St Petersburg flood of 7 November 1824, later the subject of Pushkin's 'The Bronze Horseman'. WorldCat locates just one copy, at Cornell University. Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 67 (p.533).
One volume, octavo (127 x 89mm). Complete with the additional engraved title and the engraved frontispiece, both by S. Galaktionov (light scattered spotting, occasional light soiling). Contemporary marbled boards, red spine label gilt (spine ends chipped off, extremities rubbed).
The first edition of the rare first issue. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. Northern Flowers is one of the most celebrated 19th-century Russian almanacs, edited by Pushkin's great friend Delvig. Contributions by Pushkin in this volume include the first appearance of four passages from part 2 of Eugene Onegin, and three poems: 'Pesn o veshchem Olege', 'Demon', and 'Proserpina'. The fragments from Onegin were intended, among other things, to whet the audience's appetite for the serial publication of this work, which was issued in parts between 1825 and 1832. This issue also includes a number of fables by Krylov. The publication of this inaugural volume of Northern Flowers was delayed by the terrible St Petersburg flood of 7 November 1824, later the subject of Pushkin's 'The Bronze Horseman'. WorldCat locates just one copy, at Cornell University. Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 67 (p.533).
One volume, octavo (127 x 89mm). Complete with the additional engraved title and the engraved frontispiece, both by S. Galaktionov (light scattered spotting, occasional light soiling). Contemporary marbled boards, red spine label gilt (spine ends chipped off, extremities rubbed).
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