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PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837). Poltava. St Petersburg: Press of the Department of Popular Instruction, 1829.
The first edition of Pushkin's heroic epic poem; an attractive copy in contemporary red morocco. Pushkin sings the deeds of the Ukrainian Cossack Mazepa at the Battle of Poltava, which pitted Russia against Sweden. Pushkin was inspired by Byron, who had treated the same subject in Mazeppa (1819), and Tchaikovsky interpreted Pushkin's version for his opera of the same name (1883/4). RBH and ABPC record no other copy in contemporary full morocco. Kilgour 883; Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 18.
Octavo (188 x 116mm). With the half-title (light scattered spotting). Contemporary Russian red morocco, flat spine tooled in gilt with a Greek key and lettered directly in gilt, sides paneled in gilt with a palmette border, gilt edges, blue coated endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed).
The first edition of Pushkin's heroic epic poem; an attractive copy in contemporary red morocco. Pushkin sings the deeds of the Ukrainian Cossack Mazepa at the Battle of Poltava, which pitted Russia against Sweden. Pushkin was inspired by Byron, who had treated the same subject in Mazeppa (1819), and Tchaikovsky interpreted Pushkin's version for his opera of the same name (1883/4). RBH and ABPC record no other copy in contemporary full morocco. Kilgour 883; Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 18.
Octavo (188 x 116mm). With the half-title (light scattered spotting). Contemporary Russian red morocco, flat spine tooled in gilt with a Greek key and lettered directly in gilt, sides paneled in gilt with a palmette border, gilt edges, blue coated endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed).
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