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[JOURNAL]. Sobranie stikhotvorenii, otnosiashchikhsia k nezabvennomu 1812 godu. [A Collection of Poems Related to the Unforgettable Year of 1812]. Moscow: University Press, 1814.
Scarce first edition, in the original wrappers, of this remarkable collection – a poetic celebration of Russia’s defeat of Napoleon in 1812, published by Prince N.M. Kugushev two years later. Among the featured authors were giants like Derzhavin, Karamzin and Zhukovskii as well as lesser known or even amateur (often anonymous) poets. The poems praised military and imperial patriotism in heroic or elegiac verse blending political, satirical, polemical and even folkloric themes revolving around the figure of Napoleon. ‘As it contains in its pages a great amount of poetic works of the time, it is now a rarity and very much liked’ (D.D. Jazykov). RBH records no other copies having been offered at auction. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1437; Al’manakhi, 169-70. K.V. Anisimov, ‘Problemy nauchnogo izdaniia’, p. 30.
Two volumes, quarto (230 x 145mm). Additional engraved titles, 2: with final index (edges dusty and uncut, first couple of leaves thumbed, the odd ink mark, 1: engraved title mounted, 2: minor repair to few lower outer corners). In the original paper wrappers (somewhat rubbed, spines sunned). Provenance: stamp T.(?) Makoronenko (titles) – occasional slightly later annotations.
Scarce first edition, in the original wrappers, of this remarkable collection – a poetic celebration of Russia’s defeat of Napoleon in 1812, published by Prince N.M. Kugushev two years later. Among the featured authors were giants like Derzhavin, Karamzin and Zhukovskii as well as lesser known or even amateur (often anonymous) poets. The poems praised military and imperial patriotism in heroic or elegiac verse blending political, satirical, polemical and even folkloric themes revolving around the figure of Napoleon. ‘As it contains in its pages a great amount of poetic works of the time, it is now a rarity and very much liked’ (D.D. Jazykov). RBH records no other copies having been offered at auction. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1437; Al’manakhi, 169-70. K.V. Anisimov, ‘Problemy nauchnogo izdaniia’, p. 30.
Two volumes, quarto (230 x 145mm). Additional engraved titles, 2: with final index (edges dusty and uncut, first couple of leaves thumbed, the odd ink mark, 1: engraved title mounted, 2: minor repair to few lower outer corners). In the original paper wrappers (somewhat rubbed, spines sunned). Provenance: stamp T.(?) Makoronenko (titles) – occasional slightly later annotations.
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