Kondakov, Nikodim Pavlovich.

4to (358 x 264mm.), number 61 of a limited edition of 200 copies in French, dedication leaf printed in gold and colours on an embossed silver background, portrait of Zvenigorodsky, coloured and gilt initials and decoration, black and white illustrations, 31 chromolithographed plates with gold, original cream morocco elaborately blocked, decorated and lettered in gold and black, coloured and gilt edges, embroidered silk dust-jacket, in folding navy buckram box, lacking embroidered bookmark, slight damp-staining to verso of dust-jacket and inside of box

Monsieur le Comte de Lamotte d'Allogny's copy

Fekula 6705

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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A lavish publication about A.V. Zvenigorodsky's collection of tenth- and eleventh-century Byzantine enamels, now held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, to which they were donated by J.P. Morgan. There were 600 copies printed, 200 each in Russian, French and German, all of which were designated for presentation rather than sale.

For Stasov's work describing its publication, see lot 128.