An attractive copy of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Aleksandr%20Agin&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Agin</a>'s celebrated series of illustrations for <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Gogol&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gogol</a>'s Dead Souls.<ul><li>Nikolai Gogol (Russian).</li><li>Illustrated by Aleksandr Agin (Russian).</li><li>Sto chetyre risunika k poeme N. V. Gogolia 'Mertvye Dushi' [One hundred and four illustrations for 'Dead Souls' by N.V.Gogol].</li><li>St Petersburg: D. D. Fedorov, 1892.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>104 illustrations in black and white after Agin.</li><li>Text in Russian.</li><li>In the original wrapper, later half red morocco with title in gilt to spine.</li></ul> Alexander Agin (1817-75) was a Russian graphic artist and illustrator and this series of illustrations for Gogol's Dead Souls is considered his major work. They were first published in 1846 in serial form by Bernadsky with four prints each issue. Only 18 issues rather than the total 25 appeared as a quarrel between the Bernadsky and a gentleman named Goriainov, who owned the rights to the illustrations halted publication. In 1892, the bookseller D. Fedorov bought from Goryainov's heirs the rights to both the published and unpublished drawings engraved by Bernardsky. In 1892 he published them all under the title One Hundred Drawings for Gogol's Poem, and then, in the same year, a second and third edition appeared. For the third edition he added four more illustrations, one for the announcement of the first edition in 1846 and three drawings from the collection of the bibliophile, I. A. Efremov. The title was therefore changed from one hundred to one hundred and four - making this third edition the most complete.

Sto Chetyre Risunika k Poeme

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Gogol&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gogol</a>'s Les Âmes Mortes (Dead Souls), the first major book entirely illustrated and signed by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=marc%20chagall&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chagall</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Nicolai Gogol (Russian).</li><li>Illustrated by Marc Chagall (French-Russian).</li><li>Paris: Tériade, 1948.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Illustrated with 96 etchings, hors-texte, and 11 etched vignettes, en-texte on Japon nacré.</li><li>Signed by Chagall in ink on the justification page.</li><li>Limited edition, one of 50 copies on vélin d’arches filigrané, this being numbered 27, from a total edition of 368.</li><li>Text in French.</li><li>All loose as issued in publisher’s printed cream colored wrappers, with cream colored chemises.</li></ul>&nbsp;Gogol’s masterpiece Dead Souls, the first major book entirely illustrated by Chagall and his first illustrations for Vollard. Written over five years at the end of the long pilgrimage that brought Gogol to Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, Dead Souls offers a vivid and ruthless portrait of a small swindler in provincial Russia in 1820. Published for the first time in 1842, the novel went on to exert a huge influence over the development of Russian literature. In 1923 the French publisher Ambroise Vollard asked Chagall to produce an illustrated edition. Chagall, who had always felt a strong emotional connection to the country where he spent his youth, agreed with enthusiasm and pursued the project between 1923 and 1927. However, like many other Vollard projects, the production of the work was interrupted and only completed years later. The final plate presents a particularly curious image in which Gogol reads and Chagall paints a portrait of Vollard.

Les Âmes Mortes

Finely bound set of the first-edition set of the Garnett translation of Gogol's works.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6.</li><li>Nikolai Gogol (Russian).</li><li>Translated by Constance Garnett (English).</li><li>Dead Souls, The Overcoat and Other Stories, Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and The Government Inspector and Other Plays.</li><li>London: Chatto and Windus, 1922–28.</li><li>Octavo</li><li>Bound in blue half morocco over matching cloth sides, with raised bands and gilt titles to red labels on spines, top edges gilt.</li></ul> Constance Garnett translated the works of several Russian authors, introducing a whole generation of English-speaking readers to the Russian modernists.

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