KRYLOV, Ivan Andreevich (1768-1844). Basni ... v os mi knigakh. [Fables… in eight books]. St Petersburg: Smirdin, 1830. Notable lifetime edition of Krylov’s Fables , which includes the first appearance of Part 8. In 1830 the publisher Smirnov acquired the rights to publish Krylov’s successful fables. He started with this collection of 186 stories, which he published in three formats (octavo, 12mo and 16mo), and went on to produce several more editions (plain text, illustrated, pocket or large format) for a total output of forty thousand copies. Enormously successful, ‘Krylov’s Fables stand out in the grand Euro-American tradition’ including Aesop and La Fontaine, and are imbued with a literary realism that has ‘a very audible and Russian feeling to it’ (Cornwell). Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 791. N. Cornwell, Reference Guide to Russian Literature , p.471. Octavo (209 x 130mm). (Wanting leaf 2 in first quire; some spotting and soiling, more so to first quire and last couple of leaves, ink marks to p. 268, a few marginal pinhole wormhole to the last quires, one or two marginal short tears not touching text.) Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (rebacked preserving the original spine, tooled in blind). Provenance: one or two unidentified small ink stamps and pen shelfmarks (rear pastedown) – some pencil markings (last leaf).
KRYLOV, Ivan Andreevich (1768-1844). Basni ... v os mi knigakh. [Fables… in eight books]. St Petersburg: Smirdin, 1830. Notable lifetime edition of Krylov’s Fables , which includes the first appearance of Part 8. In 1830 the publisher Smirnov acquired the rights to publish Krylov’s successful fables. He started with this collection of 186 stories, which he published in three formats (octavo, 12mo and 16mo), and went on to produce several more editions (plain text, illustrated, pocket or large format) for a total output of forty thousand copies. Enormously successful, ‘Krylov’s Fables stand out in the grand Euro-American tradition’ including Aesop and La Fontaine, and are imbued with a literary realism that has ‘a very audible and Russian feeling to it’ (Cornwell). Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 791. N. Cornwell, Reference Guide to Russian Literature , p.471. Octavo (209 x 130mm). (Wanting leaf 2 in first quire; some spotting and soiling, more so to first quire and last couple of leaves, ink marks to p. 268, a few marginal pinhole wormhole to the last quires, one or two marginal short tears not touching text.) Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (rebacked preserving the original spine, tooled in blind). Provenance: one or two unidentified small ink stamps and pen shelfmarks (rear pastedown) – some pencil markings (last leaf).
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