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BENOIS, Alexandre [Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua] (1

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St. Petersburg: Komitet Populyarizaschi Khudozhestvennykh Izdanii pri Rossiiskoi Akademii Isirii Materialnoi Kultury, 1923. 78 pp., large 4to (345 x 270 mm). Frontispiece and 29 illustrations, printed in two or more colors, 6 uncolored head or tailpieces, after Benois. Original thick paper magenta wrappers, the upper cover blocked in black to a design by Benois, thin tan card chemise. Condition: wrappers sunned, small tears to backstrip with small loss to foot, book-block detached from wrappers, spine of chemise torn with small loss. number 376 of 1000 copies in the rare original chemise. This illustrated version of Pushkin's famous poem (first published in 1903) is considered by many to be Benois' masterpiece as a book illustrator. Ivan Federov was seeing this deluxe edition through the press in 1917 when the Revolution intervened and the book was not issued until six years later. Benois left Russia for good in 1926.

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