Bilibin's Volga, Ornately Illustrated, 1904
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Heading: (Bilibin, Ivan Yakovlevich, illustrator)
Author:
Title: ??????. ??????. [Byliny. Volga.]
Place Published: Petrograd
Publisher:I.I. Bilibin
Date Published: 1904
Description:
Author:
Title: ??????. ??????. [Byliny. Volga.]
Place Published: Petrograd
Publisher:I.I. Bilibin
Date Published: 1904
Description:
16 pp. Illustrated with 5 color plates, plus black and white headers and footers. These plates are based on, and reproductions of, original chromolithographs by Bilibin (but are not chromolithographs themselves). 37.5x31 cm (14¾x12½"), original illustrated wrappers. First Edition.
Telling the story of the mythical hero Volga, some of Bilibin's finest illustrations pull inspiration from both traditional Russian and traditional Ukrainian folk art, Japanese woodblock prints, and the scenes and lifestyle of the Russian far north. Text in Russian.
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Light edgewear, rubbing, minor creasing to wrappers; a few minor smudges, very good.
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Bilibin's Volga, Ornately Illustrated, 1904
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