Al'bom goglevskikh tipov po risunkam khudozhnika P. Boklevskogo s predisloviem V. Ia. Stoiunina. (Album of Gogol's characters after the drawings of th artist P. Boklevskii, with a foreword by V. Ia. Stoiunin.) Tenth edition.
Hardcover
1909 · St. Petersburg
by BOKLEVSKII, Piotr Mikhailovich [1816-1897]
St. Petersburg: Tipografiia Obshchestvennaia pol'za, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo. Quarter textured red cloth with olive green boards, titling label to upper board. 1f. (recto title, verso copyright statement), 1f. (introduction), 32 ff. (illustrations). In Cyrillic. Binding slightly worn and rubbed. Boklevskii was one of the greatest Russian book illustrators, especially noted for his drawings of literacy characters by Nikolai Gogol and Alexander Ostrovskii. The text notes that the drawings are reproduced in a larger format than in preceding editions. The footnote gives the publisher's address. (Inventory #: D15989)