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A collection of books, journals and theatre programmes from the Benois family library
Description
- A collection of books, journals and theatre programmes from the Benois family library
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Condition
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Catalogue Note
Mir iskusstva vols 1-12, published in St. Petersburg 1895-1904 bound in seven volumes:
Vols 1 & 2, 1895
with marble boards and leather spine and corners, the spine embossed with Alexander Benois's initials in Latin at the base
33.5 by 28cm
Vols 3 & 4, 1900
with marble boards and leather spine embossed with Alexander Benois's initials in Latin at the base and with artist's ex libris taped to the inside cover
31.5 by 26cm.
Vols 5 & 6, 1901
with marble boards and leather spine embossed with Alexander Benois's initials in Latin at the base and with artist's ex libris taped to the inside cover
31.5 by 26cm.
Vols 7 & 8, 1902
with marble boards and leather spine embossed with Alexander Benois's initials in Latin at the base
31.5 by 26cm.
Condition: the spine is loose and damaged/broken and some pages are missing
Vols 9 & 10, 1903
with marble boards and leather spine embossed with Alexander Benois's initials in Latin at the base
31.5 by 26cm.
Condition: the front board and the spine is loose and broken, with the bottom half of the leather on the spine missing.
Khronika 1903
with marble board and leather corners, the upper part of the spine has started coming away and is ripped, 31.5 by 26cm.
Vol 11, 1904
with marble board and leather corners and spine ("Mednij vsadnik"), 31.5 by 26cm.
Condition: The spine has come away from the boards and is missing the top section; the first 11 pages are loose.
Vol 12, & Khronika, 1904
with marble board and leather corners
31.5 by 26cm.
Condition: the spine has come away from the boards, the corners are worn
S. Makovsky (ed.) and N. Radlova, Sovremennaia russkaia grafika, Petrograd, Union, 1917
annotated throughout by an unknown hand, annotations on page 4 by Alexander Benois
Cloth covered boards and paper cover
33 by 25cm.
Condition: the cover stained and ripped with losses on the corners with foxing with some pages loose
A. Benois, Istoriya zhivopisi: chast' pervaya – peizazhnaya zhivopis', 1912-1913, vols 1 and 2, in 10 sections
Condition: sheets loose, front cover of section 10 missing. The sheets soiled and worn, with tears and losses to the covers
Type-written libretto of Les Tisserands ou L'Habit neuf du roi d'après Andersen
inscribed, titled and dated by A. Benois on the cardboard cover
29 by 22.25cm.
Condition: The card is dirty with handling marks and some tears, the staples have begun to rust.
Type-written libretto of La Sagesse
According to the inscription on the front this copy was 'used by Romanov during the rehearsals in Rome in August and September 1949'. Contains a loose sheet with handwritten summary of Le pavillon d'Armide by an unidentified hand; inscribed throughout by Alexander Benois with a number of illustrations
28 by 22.25cm.
Programme for a production of L'Idiot at the Theatre de Vaudeville, Paris (1925)
inscribed l'idiot by Alexander Benois on the cover
31.75 by 24.5cm.
Condition: Cover with water staining and some losses to the corner
General Programme for the Monte Carlo Season 1923-1924
with reproductions of designs by Braque, Ingres, Gris, and Alexander Benois, inscribed on the front by Alexander Benois 'Premiere de l'education' (presumably Une education manquee
40.75 by 24.5cm.
Programme for the spring 1930 season of L'Opera russe a Paris
inscribed on the front "Sadko" by Benois, the cover stained with foxing with some losses and wear to the corners
31 by 24.25cm.
A. Benois, Versailles, Petersburg: Akvilon, 1922 an album of prints
25 by 33cm.
Condition: the pages are discoloured with some staining, the spine is slightly loose in some places, in a plastic cover
A poster for A.N.Benois: vystavka proizvedenii at the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Condition: folded into quarters, the sheet stained with wear and minor losses to the corners. With small strips of sellotape stuck to the reverse.
A group of 45 prints on religious and folk subjects, late 19th century
Condition: secured at the top, the sheets soiled with media staining and wear and tears along the edges and handling marks throughout.
A. Benois, Moi vospominanija, Moscow: Nauka, 1990, Vols. 1-5 in two tomes
Cloth-covered boards (two copies of vols I-III and one copy vols IV-V)
22 by 17.5cm
M.Etkind, A.N.Benois I russkaya khudozhestvennaya kul'tura, Leningrad: khudozhnik RSFSR, 1989
fairly good condition
Full Musical score: La Belle au bois dormant: ballet en trois actes precedes par un prologue. Musique de P.Tschaikowsky. Op. 66, Moscow: Jurgenson, 1889
marbled boards, leather spine and corners, with sketches and inscriptions including a list of characters by Alexander Benois on the inside front covers and further inscribed by another unidentified hand
Condition: wear and losses to the covers. Frontispiece loose,
T.Tierney, Pavlova & Nijinsky: Paper dolls in full colour, London: Constable and Co., 1989
T.Tierney, Diaghilev's Ballets russes: paper dolls in full colour, London: Constable and Co., 1989