PUSHKIN ALEXANDER (1799-1837) Utrennyaya zarya: Almanakh na 1841 god, izdannyy Vladislavlevym. Tretiy god. [Morning Dawn: Almanac for the Year 1841, Published by Vladislavlev. Third Year]

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St. Petersburg: Printing House of the III Department of the Private E.I.V. Chancellery, 1841. - 1 engraved title page, 1 frontispiece (engraved), 394 p., 7 engraved portraits, illustrations. Illustrated edition: engraved vignette title page, 10 engravings on separate inserts. Bound in full brown leather of the era, with embossed decorative patterns on the spine and both covers, and contemporary patterned fflyleaf. Ex-libris belonging to A. and S. Vengerov on the first flyleaf. The almanac was published by V. Benediktov, A. Koltsov, P. Vyazemsky, N. Kukolnik, N. Yazykov and others. The engraved frontispiece and 10 engravings on separate inserts were executed in London by K. Briullov, Shchedrin, M. Vorobjev, Gau, Kur, G. Chernetsov. There is a poem by A. Pushkin "For the shores of a distant homeland". Bibliography: Vereshchagin No. 895; Obolyaninov No. 2752; Smirnov-Sokolsky No. 1561.