PALYAEV M.I. (1842-1899) Staroe zhitye: Ocherki i rasskazi o bivshikh obriadakh, obichayakh i poriadkakh v ustriystve domashney i obshestvennoy zhizni [Essays and stories about ceremonies, customs and rites of life in a former times]. SPB.: tip. A.S. Suvorin, 1892.

- [4], 319 p.; 22,4x15,5 cm. In a half-leather binding of the period, press gilding on the spine. In very good condition. A lifetime edition of the writer and journalist Mikhail Ivanovich Pylyaev (1842-1899) with engaging stories and anecdotes of 18th - early 19th century St. Petersburg life. Of list of contents: - How they ate in the olden time; - Gambling in the olden time; - Fashions and fashionistas of the olden time; - Old-fashioned old men, sanctimonious person and fools. Bibliography: Soc. no. 3909; Fecula. №2823