GOGOL, NIKOLAI VASILEVICH. Les âmes mortes. Paris: Tériade, 1948. 2 volumes. Folio (375 x 280 mm). Illustrated with 92 etched plates (only, of 96), some with aquatint, plus 11 etched plates of tables. Loose and untrimmed as issued in original wrappers, board covers, slipcase, and acrylic case. Very faint foxing beginning to affect plates. LIMITED EDITION, no 23 of 33 copies hors commerce from the larger edition of 335, signed by Chagall. The work contains Chagall's first illustrations executed for Ambroise Vollard, between 1923 and 1937; Vollard's perfectionism ensured that the book did not appear until after his death. Artist and the Book 50.
GOGOL, NIKOLAI VASILEVICH. Les âmes mortes. Paris: Tériade, 1948. 2 volumes. Folio (375 x 280 mm). Illustrated with 92 etched plates (only, of 96), some with aquatint, plus 11 etched plates of tables. Loose and untrimmed as issued in original wrappers, board covers, slipcase, and acrylic case. Very faint foxing beginning to affect plates. LIMITED EDITION, no 23 of 33 copies hors commerce from the larger edition of 335, signed by Chagall. The work contains Chagall's first illustrations executed for Ambroise Vollard, between 1923 and 1937; Vollard's perfectionism ensured that the book did not appear until after his death. Artist and the Book 50.
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