[ALMANAC. LERMONTOV et al.]. Utrennjaja Zarja...na 1842 god. [Morning Dawn…for the year 1842]. St Petersburg: Press of the Second Branch of the EIV Office, 1842.
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[ALMANAC. LERMONTOV et al.]. Utrennjaja Zarja...na 1842 god. [Morning Dawn…for the year 1842]. St Petersburg: Press of the Second Branch of the EIV Office, 1842.

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[ALMANAC. LERMONTOV et al.]. Utrennjaja Zarja...na 1842 god. [Morning Dawn…for the year 1842]. St Petersburg: Press of the Second Branch of the EIV Office, 1842.

The first edition of the fourth issue. By then the editor of a remarkably successful publication, V.A. Vladislavlev was able to ‘catch the interests and moods of the wider public by giving them stories of a romantic nature, clothed in the pleasing form of the Biedermeier’ (Makarov). This illustrated issue features Lermontov’s Ljubov mertvetsa and Zhukov’s Kartezianskij monastyr’. Rare in institutions and on the market: RBH records no other copy being offered at auction. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1562; Al’manakhi, 510. K.V. Makarov, ‘Estetika bidermajera v al’manakhe Utrennjaja zarja’, p.18.

Octavo (170 x 108mm). With the engraved title and 6 plates (some mainly marginal dampstaining, plates slightly browned). Original publisher’s cloth, later marbled endpapers, boards and spine tooled in blind. Provenance: V. Pokrovsky (bookplate); stamp ‘M35-18’ (rear endleaf).
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