Benois, Alexander.

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Description

Azbuka v Kartinakh [Alphabet in Pictures]. St Petersburg: Ekspeditsii Zagotovleniya Gosudarstvennikh Bumag, [1904]

4to (325 x 260mm.), chromolithographed pictorial title-page and 33 plates after Benois, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, cover designs by Benois, some spotting, recased preserving part of original backstrip, corners creased and bumped

Catalogue Note

Better known as a founder member of the Ballets Russes, this was Alexander Benois' only children's book.