BILIBIN, Ivan (illustrator). – Alexander PUSHKIN. Skazi Pushkina.

BILIBIN, Ivan (illustrator). – Alexander PUSHKIN. Skazi Pushkina. Skazka o zolotom petushke. [In Cyrillic.] Puskin Tales. The Tale of the Golden Cockerel. St. Petersburg: Ekspeditsiya zagotovleniya gosudarstvennykh, 1907. First edition, oblong folio (324 x 251mm.) Chromolithographed plates and decorations. Original chromolithographed covers (small stains to upper cover). – And a further six volumes illustrated by Ivan Bilibin (including ‘Vasilisa Prekrasnaya’ [in Cyrillic] ‘Vasilisa the Beautiful’, 1902, folio, and Alexander Afanasayev’s version of ‘Tsarevna Lyagushka’ [in Cyrillic] ‘The Frog Princess’, 1901, oblong folio, and Alexander Pushkin’s ‘Skazka o Tsare Saltane’ [in Cyrillic] ‘The Tale of the Tsar Saltan’, [lower cover detached], 1905, oblong 4to, and ‘Skazka ob Marja Morevna’ [in Cyrillic] ‘Maria Morev’, [abrasions to three plates], with loosely inserted 3pp. English translation, 1903, folio, and Alexander Afanasayev’s version of ‘Sestritsa Alenushka I Bratets Ivanushka & Belaya Utochka’ [in Cyrillic] ‘Sister Aloynushka and Brother Ivanushka & The Little White Duck’, 1903, folio, and ‘Byliny, Volga’ [in Cyrillic] ‘Epic, Volga’, [defective, disbound], 1904, 4to) (7).

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