PYLYAEV MIKHAIL (1842-1899) Staraya Moskva: Rasskazy iz byloy zhizni pervoprestolnoy stolitsy [Old Moscow: Stories from the Life of the Former Capital]. St. Petersburg: publ. A.S. Suvorin, 1891

- [4], 576, 22, [2], VII p.: ill., 30 leaves ill., engraved title page; 27 cm. Lavishly illustrated edition, numerous illustrations on separate leaves, insets and endpapers, illustrations in the text, title page with four picturesque views of Moscow. In a half-leather binding of the period. Leather strap binding. In good condition. Wear on the spine and corners of the covers, minor soiling of the binding and endpapers, rare foxing in the block. First edition of the famous work by Mikhail Ivanovich Pilyaev (1842-1899), a prominent journalist, connoisseur of Russian antiquity, and historian of old Russian life in both capitals. Bibliography: See.-Soc. no. 3908.