DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Idiot . [The Idiot.] St Petersburg: K. Zamyslovskii, 1874. The first edition of 'the most original of Dostoevsky's great novels' (Frank I); it is 'the most personal of all Dostoevsky's major works, the book in which he embodies his most intimate, cherished, and sacred convictions' (Frank II). Here, Dostoevsky aims to show 'religious faith and moral conscience existing as an ineradicable attribute in the Russian people independent of reason' (Frank I). RBH and ABPC record only three complete copies having been offered at auction. The novel was serialised in the periodical Russkii Vestnik starting in 1868. Frank I: Dostoevsky. The Mantle of the Prophet , pp. 276, 328, 340; Frank II: Dostoevsky. A Writer in His Time , p.577; Kilgour 282. Two volumes bound in one, octavo (209 x 133mm). With the half-titles (occasional faint dampstaining). Contemporary Russian brown half leather filleted in blind, spine decorated in gilt, gilt morocco lettering-pieces, gilt monogram to the foot of the spine sides (extremities rubbed). Provenance : monogram AP in Cyrillic on spine – shelfmark stamp at front.
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Idiot . [The Idiot.] St Petersburg: K. Zamyslovskii, 1874. The first edition of 'the most original of Dostoevsky's great novels' (Frank I); it is 'the most personal of all Dostoevsky's major works, the book in which he embodies his most intimate, cherished, and sacred convictions' (Frank II). Here, Dostoevsky aims to show 'religious faith and moral conscience existing as an ineradicable attribute in the Russian people independent of reason' (Frank I). RBH and ABPC record only three complete copies having been offered at auction. The novel was serialised in the periodical Russkii Vestnik starting in 1868. Frank I: Dostoevsky. The Mantle of the Prophet , pp. 276, 328, 340; Frank II: Dostoevsky. A Writer in His Time , p.577; Kilgour 282. Two volumes bound in one, octavo (209 x 133mm). With the half-titles (occasional faint dampstaining). Contemporary Russian brown half leather filleted in blind, spine decorated in gilt, gilt morocco lettering-pieces, gilt monogram to the foot of the spine sides (extremities rubbed). Provenance : monogram AP in Cyrillic on spine – shelfmark stamp at front.
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