Burliuk, David, Nikolai Burliuk, Elena Guro, Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Benedikt Livshits and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

4to (196 x 173mm.), [limited to 800 copies], printed on thick pale green paper, illustrations by David and Vladimir Burliuk, Natalia Goncharova, Elena Guro and Mikhail Larionov, later brown cloth retaining original decorated upper wrapper with printed paper label, slight marginal browning and fading, two leaves repaired in gutter

Hellyer 462 (both issues); Ex-Libris 39; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 53

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The publication of the second Sadok Sudei volume marked a reunion of the Union of Youth, Hylaean and Rayist groups. A more aggressive sequel to the first Sadok Sudei (published in 1910), it includes a long Hylaean manifesto stating that their intent was to ignore current trends in rhyme and poetry and to create a new, expressive genre and style concentrating on personal freedom and verbal richness. This was the last work in which the Rayists Larionov and Goncharova collaborated with the Hylaeans and the Union of Youth.