Shit'ye drevney rusi v sobranii Zagorskogo Muzeya (Early Russian Embroidery in the Zagorsk Museum Collection)
Moscow: Sovetskaya Rossia, 1983. Hardcover. Color-photographic boards with brown spine and gold lettering; beige/white glossy slipcase with black lettering; 294 pp. full of color images. NF/NF but with museum ex-lib. book plate inside front cover. Item #140197
Dual text Russian/English. Two essays; the first is a welcome from the editor, 6 pp. in Russian with a 3-page English summary; the second, a 32-page preliminary essay on the topic of Russian embroidery, is in Russian only. The main catalogue follows, with each item described in both languages (more extensively in Russian), followed by the color plates of same. A glossary, index of items, source information, literary overview, bibliography and list of abbreviations (the latter three in Russian only). Exquisite images of tapestries, clerical vestments, liturgical textiles, gonfalons (heraldic banners) and more, littered with pearls, gold thread, gem stones and the most intricate stitches imaginable.
Price: $100.00