LERMONTOV MIKHAIL (1814-1841) Sochineniya: Khudozhestvennoe izdanie; risunki khudozhnikov: I.K. Aivazovskogo, V.M. Vasnetsova, A.M. Vasnetsova [i dr.] [Writings: Artistic Edition; illustrations by artists: I.K. Aivazovsky, V.M. Vasnetsov, A.M. Vasnetsov [and others]: [in 3 vols.]. M.: Typography-lithography partnership of I.N. Kushnerov and Co. and the bookshop of K.P. Pryashnikov, 1891-1899.
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Vol. 1. - [2], VI, LIV, 140 p.: ill., [16] p. of ill., portrait, facsimile; Vol. 2. - VI, 220 p.: ill., [23] p. of ill.; Vol. 3: Appendices to the 1st and 2nd volumes. - 1899. - 223, [1] p.: ill.; 29x19 cm.
Three volumes in period half-leather bindings. Leather bands with gold stamping, endpapers of gilt paper with floral ornament. In good condition. Rubbing of the bands and corners of the covers, losses of small fragments of leather along the bands, foxing, traces of moisture in the block (Vol. 1), a dedicatory inscription from 1902 on the reverse of the title page (Vol. 1).
Lavishly illustrated edition with phototype and zincograph illustrations in the text and on separate sheets.