TOLSTOY LEO (1828-1910) Voskresenie [Resurrection]; edited and annotated by P.I. Biryukov; with drawings by academic painter L.O. Pasternak. Moscow: I.D. Sytin's Printing House, 1915.
Lotto 963
8090
[4], 306, V p., 34 color illustrations; 28.5x21 cm.
In the original full leather binding with gilt embossing. Composite illustrated endpapers. Illustrations on separate sheets protected by thin parchment paper. In good condition. Crack along the spine of the leather binding, tears, and loss of fragments on the spine.
This edition became part of a series of the most luxurious pre-revolutionary editions of Leo Tolstoy's works, totaling 10 volumes. The series lacked a common title page, with the books unified by a shared artistic design.