Contes de Pouchkine

Features

Author:  Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin

Publisher:  René Kieffer Éditeur

Place of printing:  Paris

Year of publication:  1925

Product Condition:
Example in good condition. The illustrated editorial paperback has been preserved. Half leather binding with marbled corners and plates with gilt titles and impressions reproducing swans on the spine with five bands and golden fillets on the plates: abrasions on the spine, on the caps, on the edges and on the curved corners; dust stains on the dishes. Marbled pasteplates and end pages. Irregular cuts with dust spots, the head ones are golden. Well-preserved papers with beautiful color illustrations in the text and outside the text; first and last leaves browned; pencil annotations on the last flyleaf. Present fabric bookmark combined with the very worn volume. Text in French. Texte en Français. Livre en bon ètat.

Pages:  (12),99,(9)

Format:  Eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  24
Width:  19

Description

Splendid numbered and illustrated edition of Pushkin's stories published by the exclusive publishing house founded in 1909 by René Kieffer, one of the most important French Art Deco bookbinders. The publishing house, which works alongside the binding workshop, specialized in luxury editions, like ours: on the colophon: "This edition of the Contes de Pouchkine is issued for five cents exemplary of 50 in Japan with numbers from 1 to 50 and containing a suite of engravings and 450 on one page, numbering 51 to 500. N. 437" The very colorful illustrations, nt and 7 ft, are entrusted to Pierre Rousseau, in what could be his first attempt at illustrator (he was only 22 years old at the time), a field in which he was a prolific author until the 1960s. Text printed in green

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