GRIBOEDOV, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1795-1829). Gore ot uma. [Woe from Wit]. St Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1854. Nikolay Karlovich Schilder’s copy, in a fine binding , of Griboedov’s satirical masterpiece. Published in a censored version in 1833, ‘even while the manuscript was passing from hand to hand, its lines were becoming proverbial’ (Senelick). General-Lieutenant N.K. Schilder (1842-1902) was a major Russian historian renowned for his biographies of Tsar Alexander I and Peter the Great based on frequently new or obscure documents. He was also director of the Imperial Public Library. RBH and ABPC record no other copies being offered at auction. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii. L. Senelick, Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre , p. 438. Octavo (172 x 110mm). With the half-title and the engraved portrait frontispiece (slight toning, occasional dampstaining). Contemporary Russian blue crushed morocco, silk endpapers, boards gilt and blind tooled with gilt title, gilt author’s name and indistinct arms in blind, spine with title, ornaments and ‘N. Schil’der’ gilt, inner edges gilt (spine a little sunned). Provenance : N.K. Schilder (presentation in Cyrillic dated 1928 to half-title) – artist V.E. Grigorev (Doddy) (bookplate to rear pastedown) – modern shelfmark in ink to front free endpaper – stamp ‘M 15’ – another erased stamp on rear endpapers.
GRIBOEDOV, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1795-1829). Gore ot uma. [Woe from Wit]. St Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1854. Nikolay Karlovich Schilder’s copy, in a fine binding , of Griboedov’s satirical masterpiece. Published in a censored version in 1833, ‘even while the manuscript was passing from hand to hand, its lines were becoming proverbial’ (Senelick). General-Lieutenant N.K. Schilder (1842-1902) was a major Russian historian renowned for his biographies of Tsar Alexander I and Peter the Great based on frequently new or obscure documents. He was also director of the Imperial Public Library. RBH and ABPC record no other copies being offered at auction. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii. L. Senelick, Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre , p. 438. Octavo (172 x 110mm). With the half-title and the engraved portrait frontispiece (slight toning, occasional dampstaining). Contemporary Russian blue crushed morocco, silk endpapers, boards gilt and blind tooled with gilt title, gilt author’s name and indistinct arms in blind, spine with title, ornaments and ‘N. Schil’der’ gilt, inner edges gilt (spine a little sunned). Provenance : N.K. Schilder (presentation in Cyrillic dated 1928 to half-title) – artist V.E. Grigorev (Doddy) (bookplate to rear pastedown) – modern shelfmark in ink to front free endpaper – stamp ‘M 15’ – another erased stamp on rear endpapers.
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