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GOLIKE, Roman Romanovich (editor). Shut. Chout (L

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St. Petersburg: R. Golike, January 4-June 3/21, 1897 25 issues. Folio (305 x 230 mm). Original cromolithographed wrappers; housed in custom clam shell case. Condition: occasional light spotting; else bright, clean copies. complete six months of this rare bilingual satirical weekly. This elaborately printed and illustrated humor magazine contains early drawings by Léon Bakst and Mikhail Vrubel in the March 22/April 3 and April 19/May 1 issues. There are numerous jabs at both the peasant and the upper classes in color and black and white, and the back covers are devoted to amusing full-color cartoons of microbes.

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