![[ALMANAC. PUSHKIN]. Utrennjaja Zarja...na 1841 god. [Morning Dawn…for the year 1841]. St Petersburg: Press of the Second Branch of the EIV Office, 1841.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18441_0004_000(almanac_pushkin_utrennjaja_zarjana_1841_god_morning_dawnfor_the_year_1073232).jpg?w=1)
Details
[ALMANAC. PUSHKIN]. Utrennjaja Zarja...na 1841 god. [Morning Dawn…for the year 1841]. St Petersburg: Press of the Second Branch of the EIV Office, 1841.
The first edition of the third issue. The critic V.G. Belinsky had much praise for this volume, writing that, with it, V.A. Vladislavlev had given ‘a fourth present to lovers of easy reading and beautiful editions’. Notably, it features Pushkin’s Dlja beregov otchizny dal’nej. The engravings and the copperplate drawings were executed in London. Rare in institutions and on the market: RBH records no other copy being offered at auction. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1561; Al’manakhi, 488. Belinsky, Otechestvennye zapiski (1841), I, xiv.
Octavo (170 x 108mm). With the engraved title and 10 plates (uniform age browning, some mainly marginal dampstaining, heavier to first few quires, penultimate leaf reinforced at gutter). Original publisher’s cloth, later marbled endpapers, boards and spine tooled in blind. Provenance: V. Pokrovsky (bookplate); stamp ‘M35-18’ (rear endleaf).
The first edition of the third issue. The critic V.G. Belinsky had much praise for this volume, writing that, with it, V.A. Vladislavlev had given ‘a fourth present to lovers of easy reading and beautiful editions’. Notably, it features Pushkin’s Dlja beregov otchizny dal’nej. The engravings and the copperplate drawings were executed in London. Rare in institutions and on the market: RBH records no other copy being offered at auction. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1561; Al’manakhi, 488. Belinsky, Otechestvennye zapiski (1841), I, xiv.
Octavo (170 x 108mm). With the engraved title and 10 plates (uniform age browning, some mainly marginal dampstaining, heavier to first few quires, penultimate leaf reinforced at gutter). Original publisher’s cloth, later marbled endpapers, boards and spine tooled in blind. Provenance: V. Pokrovsky (bookplate); stamp ‘M35-18’ (rear endleaf).
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
Brought to you by
Emily Pilling