DULSKY P.M. (1879-1956) Pamyatniki Kazanskoy stariny: ocherk P.M. Dul’skogo s 50 snimkami vidov ‘Staroy Kazani’ [Monuments of Kazan Antiquity: An Essay by P.M. Dulsky with 50 Views of ‘Old Kazan’]. Appendix: Arkheologicheskiy etyud B.P. Denike o freskakh Sviyazhskogo Uspenskogo monastyrya [Archaeological Study by B.P. Denike on the Frescoes of the Sviyazhsk Dormition Monastery (with 6 plates)]. Kazan: S.V. Solomin; Central Printing House, 1914.

232 pp.: ill.; 21 x 14 cm. Limited to 1,000 copies. Plates printed in Leipzig. Early 20th-century composite binding, with the original publisher’s wrapper designed by E. Narbut mounted on the upper board. Good condition. Pre-revolutionary shelf number and indistinct stamp on the title page. The work describes and illustrates the architectural monuments of Kazan from the 16th to the 19th century. Petr Maksimilianovich Dulsky (1879-1956) was a teacher, art historian, museum professional, publisher and artist, a specialist in the history of the book and book art, and a bibliophile. He was one of the founders of the Kazan Bibliographic Circle of Friends of the Book and co-editor of its journal ‘Kazanskiy bibliofil’. On his initiative and under his editorship appeared the first Soviet periodical devoted to museum studies, ‘Kazanskiy muzeynyy vestnik’.