Slovo o polku igoreve [The Lay of Igor's Host] illustrated by Ivan Golikov, Moscow: Akademiya, 1934

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Slovo o pl'ku igoreve. St Petersburg: Academia, 1934
size of cover: 43 by 30cm., 17 by 11¾in.

50 pages, uncut, with elaborately decorated title page, 10 glossy colour plates, black and white and colour headpieces, the pages slightly wavy and with a few minor spots of staining in places but overall condition good imitation morrocco bidning with laquered upper in palekh design, the lower cover with printed design in gold featuring a bird, in maroon folding box worn

Provenance

A gift to Professor Grozny from P.Zeldt, the Director of the Western Department of the All-Union Cultural Foreign Affairs, Moscow 25 December 1936