ANNENSKII, Innokentii Fedorovich (1855-1909). Famira-Kifared. Vakkhicheskaia drama . [Thamyris, the Cither Player. A Bacchic Drama.] St Petersburg: E.I. Grzhebin, 1919. The plates include five reproductions of Alexandra Exter costume designs for the Moscow Kamerny Theatre's production in the winter of 1916-1917. The cover design is by Nikolai Radlov; the engraved tailpieces include designs by Sergei Sudeikin and Dmitrii Mitrokhin. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction; WorldCat locates just two copies: at the British Library and at the University of Toronto. One of 500 numbered copies, this one number 27; 50 ad nominem copies were also issued under the imprint of Giperborei. Octavo (210 x 158mm, with deckle edges). Frontispiece printed in orange and black, and seven plates, of which two printed in orange and black, the rest mounted halftone reproductions after Alexandra Exter; engraved tailpieces, some by Mitrokhin and Sudeikin (occasional minor spotting). Original illustrated wrappers, by N. Radlov, printed in red and black on orange card (some soiling; light wear at the extremities). Provenance : indistinct contemporary signature on the front cover and title page – Russian bookseller's small stamp on back cover.
ANNENSKII, Innokentii Fedorovich (1855-1909). Famira-Kifared. Vakkhicheskaia drama . [Thamyris, the Cither Player. A Bacchic Drama.] St Petersburg: E.I. Grzhebin, 1919. The plates include five reproductions of Alexandra Exter costume designs for the Moscow Kamerny Theatre's production in the winter of 1916-1917. The cover design is by Nikolai Radlov; the engraved tailpieces include designs by Sergei Sudeikin and Dmitrii Mitrokhin. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction; WorldCat locates just two copies: at the British Library and at the University of Toronto. One of 500 numbered copies, this one number 27; 50 ad nominem copies were also issued under the imprint of Giperborei. Octavo (210 x 158mm, with deckle edges). Frontispiece printed in orange and black, and seven plates, of which two printed in orange and black, the rest mounted halftone reproductions after Alexandra Exter; engraved tailpieces, some by Mitrokhin and Sudeikin (occasional minor spotting). Original illustrated wrappers, by N. Radlov, printed in red and black on orange card (some soiling; light wear at the extremities). Provenance : indistinct contemporary signature on the front cover and title page – Russian bookseller's small stamp on back cover.
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