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Paris: l'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, [15 November 19

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Paris: l'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, [15 November 1927]. French translation by A. Baranoff. 137 pp.,small 4to (230 x 165 mm). Half-title printed in brown, decorative title/frontispiece, five section titles, five chapter openings and one tail-piece printed in colors and gilt, 14 colored plates, text printed in black within light brown/green decorative border, occasional head or tailpiece decorations printed in light brown/green, all after Zvorikin. Original green thin card wrappers, printed in red and gilt, slipcase. Condition: the Latin numeral 'XLII' added in ink to the limitation leaf; slight fading and small tear to backstrip, slipcase scuffed. limited edition of 955 copies, this copy incorrectly numbered at a later date 'XLII'. Although the influence of Ivan Bilibin is evident in nearly every stroke, Zvorikin produced perhaps the most beautiful edition of Pushkin's great poem ever published. He upheld the high standard of artistic book illustration of the Silver Age for the Russian émigrés long after the tsar and his family had been murdered by the Bolsheviks.

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