KOLTSOV A.V. (1809-1842) Stikhotvoreniya Kol’tsova: s portr. avtora, ego faks. i stat’eyu o ego zhizni i sochineniyakh, pisannoyu V. Belinskim [Poems of Koltsov: With a Portrait of the Author, His Facsimile and an Essay on His Life and Works by V. Belinsky]. Moscow: K. Soldatenkov and N. Shchepkin; Katkov and Co., 1857.

246, IV pp., 1 leaf frontispiece (portrait); 21 x 14 cm. Lithographed portrait of the author as frontispiece. In a contemporary half-leather binding, gilt-tooled spine. In good condition. Wear to the binding, foxing. Pre-revolutionary paper bookplate of A.M. Troitsky on glossy blue paper on the endpaper. One of the first posthumous editions of A.V. Koltsov’s poems, reproducing the 1846 edition prepared by V.G. Belinsky in memory of the poet. The poet and the critic were bound by friendship for many years.