Marina Romanoff

A signed limited edition of Légende tartare de Crimée.

• Marina Romanoff (Russian).
• Légende tartare de Crimée. La Princesse Nenekedjân.
• Paris: H. Champion, 1926.
• Quarto.
• Illustrated with four full-page pochoir prints.
• Part of a limited edition of 100 copies.
• This copy signed by Marina Romanoff.
• Facsimile manuscript text in red with numerous head and tail pieces, rectos only, title hand-colored.
• Loose as issued on separate sheets, held in the original gold chemise printed with Syriac text.

A beautiful example of this Crimean Tatar folk tale printed in Paris in a small edition. The work is a facsimile of the original manuscript written by Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia and illustrated with four vivid pochoir prints. A great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I, the princess escaped the Revolution on HMS Marlborough along with other members of the Romanov family. There is a typed insert which reads 'ATTENTION, c'est le dernier exemplaire signé par l'auteur (no.31).' [Attention, this is the last example signed by the author (no.31)].