Chetyrnadtsat risunkov Ukrainskoi Azbuki [Fourteen Drawings for "The Ukrainian Alphabet"]. St. Petersburg: Golke & Vilborg, 1921. Folio. 14 plates including pictorial title page. Original aqua wrappers. Wrappers a bit frayed and faded along edges. FIRST EDITION PRINTED ON RAG PAPER: ONE OF NO MORE THAN 30 COPIES. In 1917 Golke & Vilborg commissioned the great Mir Iskusstrva artist G.I. Narbut to produce a Ukrainian equivalent of Alexandre Benois' Azbuka v kartinakh [An Alphabet in Pictures, 1904]. The two artists were great friends: Narbut dedicated two of his picture books to Benois and started to collect folk toys after seeing Benois' superb collection. Narbut paid direct homage to "I" is for "Igrushki" from Azbuka v kartinakh in his drawing of Ukrainian folk toys. Ukrainska abetka might have been Narbut's masterpiece had he completed it. When the Bolshevik Revolution broke out, Narbut joined the barricades. He departed for Kiev at the establishment of the Ukrainian Republic in 1918; and he became one of the new nation's leading artists, designing postage stamps, bank notes, charters and the state seal. When he died of typhus in 1920, the alphabet pictures that he did complete were published posthumously for a very limited collector market. Later that year, they were reissued on plain paper without the wrappers in a small printing of the same size.
Chetyrnadtsat risunkov Ukrainskoi Azbuki [Fourteen Drawings for "The Ukrainian Alphabet"]. St. Petersburg: Golke & Vilborg, 1921. Folio. 14 plates including pictorial title page. Original aqua wrappers. Wrappers a bit frayed and faded along edges. FIRST EDITION PRINTED ON RAG PAPER: ONE OF NO MORE THAN 30 COPIES. In 1917 Golke & Vilborg commissioned the great Mir Iskusstrva artist G.I. Narbut to produce a Ukrainian equivalent of Alexandre Benois' Azbuka v kartinakh [An Alphabet in Pictures, 1904]. The two artists were great friends: Narbut dedicated two of his picture books to Benois and started to collect folk toys after seeing Benois' superb collection. Narbut paid direct homage to "I" is for "Igrushki" from Azbuka v kartinakh in his drawing of Ukrainian folk toys. Ukrainska abetka might have been Narbut's masterpiece had he completed it. When the Bolshevik Revolution broke out, Narbut joined the barricades. He departed for Kiev at the establishment of the Ukrainian Republic in 1918; and he became one of the new nation's leading artists, designing postage stamps, bank notes, charters and the state seal. When he died of typhus in 1920, the alphabet pictures that he did complete were published posthumously for a very limited collector market. Later that year, they were reissued on plain paper without the wrappers in a small printing of the same size.
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