Skazka O Tsarie Saltane: O Synie Ego Slavnom I Mguchem Bogatyrie, Kniazie Gvidonie Saltanovichie i o Prekrasnoi Tsareknie Lekedi (The Tale of Tsar Saltan and of his Son, Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and of the fair Swan Princess)
Sankt-Peterburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1905. Bilibin, I. Original 1905. Softcover. Chromolithographed wrappers with Old Russian lettering; 20 pp. with 10 chromolithographs; decorative borders on each page. NF interior; covers separating from stapled spine. Item #140857
Text in Russian. Exquisite, original edition from 1905. One of the most beautiful picture books ever published for children and one of the masterworks of Mir Isskustva [The World of Art]. These illustrations were related to the elaborate sets and costumes Bilibin designed for the Rimsky-Korsakov opera also based on the Pushkin poem. Bilibin emigrated after the Bolshevik Revolution but on his return to the Soviet Union, he re-illustrated this title in a more conventional manner in 1937. (Part of description taken from a Bonham's listing, with thanks.).
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