Title: Conte de Tsar Saltan et de son fils le Glorieux et Puissant Prince Guidon Saltanovitch et de sa Belle Princesse de Cynge
Author: Pouchkine, A.S. [Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergyeevich]
Description: [48] pp. Illustrated by Natalia Gontcharova in pochoir, including 10 full-page illustrations; 6 full-page floral plates; borders on every page, head- and tail-pieces and initials. (4to) 11¼x8¾, loose in illustrated board portfolio, as issued. No. 368 of 529 on papier velin de Rives from a total edition of 599.Natalia Gontcharova was the great-niece of Pushkin's wife. Hellyer 433; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 338.
Heading: (Gontcharova, Natalia)Place Published: Paris
Publisher: La Sirene
Date Published: 1921
Author: Pouchkine, A.S. [Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergyeevich]
Description: [48] pp. Illustrated by Natalia Gontcharova in pochoir, including 10 full-page illustrations; 6 full-page floral plates; borders on every page, head- and tail-pieces and initials. (4to) 11¼x8¾, loose in illustrated board portfolio, as issued. No. 368 of 529 on papier velin de Rives from a total edition of 599.Natalia Gontcharova was the great-niece of Pushkin's wife. Hellyer 433; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 338.
Heading: (Gontcharova, Natalia)Place Published: Paris
Publisher: La Sirene
Date Published: 1921
Condition report
Portfolio spine darkened, light wear to portfolio edges, lacking ribbon ties; occasional faint foxing and finger-soiling in margins; near fine.
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