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PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837). Sochineniia [Works]. St Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of Government Papers, and I. Glazunov, 1838-1841.
A complete set in a contemporary Russian binding of the first collected edition of Pushkin's works. The final three volumes feature work which appears here for the first time in book-form; including, for example, Pushkin's masterpiece 'The Bronze Horseman'. The first eight volumes were planned and edited by his friend V.A. Zhukovskii, and the last three were published by subscription by Glazunov, Zaikin and Company; the first of these, volume 9, bears Glazunov's signature certifying that it is copy number 482. All proceeds from this edition were to benefit his widow and children; Tsar Nicholas paid off all the debts on Pushkin's estate. Fekula 5041 ('scarce'); Kilgour 890 (Zaikin imprint); Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 44.
Eleven volumes, octavo (221 x 140mm). With all the half-titles; with the engraved portrait by Utkin, and a leaf reproducing Pushkin's handwriting (some light mostly marginal spotting; chip in the blank margin of the half-title of vol. 7; occasional small marginal dampstain). Contemporary Russian burgundy half leather with black paper covered sides, flat spines titled within foliate sprays, edges sprinkled blue (volumes 1 and 2 with the spines slightly darker and with the hinges neatly repaired; extremities rubbed; sides scuffed; some spines with light flaking; some joints starting at the head). Provenance: ‘Printed in Russia’ (small import stamp in the margin of some titles).
A complete set in a contemporary Russian binding of the first collected edition of Pushkin's works. The final three volumes feature work which appears here for the first time in book-form; including, for example, Pushkin's masterpiece 'The Bronze Horseman'. The first eight volumes were planned and edited by his friend V.A. Zhukovskii, and the last three were published by subscription by Glazunov, Zaikin and Company; the first of these, volume 9, bears Glazunov's signature certifying that it is copy number 482. All proceeds from this edition were to benefit his widow and children; Tsar Nicholas paid off all the debts on Pushkin's estate. Fekula 5041 ('scarce'); Kilgour 890 (Zaikin imprint); Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 44.
Eleven volumes, octavo (221 x 140mm). With all the half-titles; with the engraved portrait by Utkin, and a leaf reproducing Pushkin's handwriting (some light mostly marginal spotting; chip in the blank margin of the half-title of vol. 7; occasional small marginal dampstain). Contemporary Russian burgundy half leather with black paper covered sides, flat spines titled within foliate sprays, edges sprinkled blue (volumes 1 and 2 with the spines slightly darker and with the hinges neatly repaired; extremities rubbed; sides scuffed; some spines with light flaking; some joints starting at the head). Provenance: ‘Printed in Russia’ (small import stamp in the margin of some titles).
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