[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.]

Iubileinyi Al'bom v pamiat' stoletiia so dnia rozhdeniia poeta 1799-1899 [A Jubilee Album to mark the centenary of the poet's birth] ...

St Petersburg, A. F. Marx, 1899. Folio, pp. 80, with over 100 black and white illustrations in the text; slightly dusty, 2iv loose, short tear to foot of 8iii; else a very good copy in commemorative red cloth, stamped in black and gilt, the original blue illustrated wrappers (a little soiled) bound in. First edition of an album in celebration of Pushkin, published as a supplement in the literary magazine Niva; the contents comprise the eulogistic poem 'Pushkin's Muse' by Semyon Frug, a long and well-illustrated 'Life of Pushkin' by V. A. Svetlov, a dissertation on Pushkin's works, ordered chronologically and with numerous extracts and illustrations, and a short essay on 'The significance of Pushkin' by the critic Rostislav Sementkovsky.OCLC lists only five copies (UC Berkeley, Harvard, North Carolina, Columbia and Wisconsin).

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