DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Zapiski iz mertvago doma. [Memoirs from the House of the Dead]. St. Petersburg: Iosafat Ogrizko, 1862. First complete edition of this early masterpiece by Dostoevsky, greatly appreciated by Tolstoy and which Lenin described as an 'unsurpassed work of Russian and world literature'. Dostoevsky's passionate description of life in a Siberian prison camp is based on his own experience; it 'provided the Russian public with its first, terrifying image of what lay ahead for those sentenced for a political crime [...] No writer was now more celebrated than Dostoevsky, whose name was surrounded with the halo of his former suffering' (Frank). This edition follows the publication of volume one only, by Eduard Prats, and the serialization in the periodical Vremia , both also in 1862. Frank, Dostoevsky. The Stir of Liberation , p.140; Kilgour 279 (this edition). Two parts in one vol., octavo (209 x 135mm). With the half titles (possibly without final blanks, scattered spotting and soiling). 19th-century Russian quarter leather, paneled spine lettered in gilt, cloth sides paneled in blind (rebacked with most of the original spines laid on, new endpapers); in a custom-made cloth box.
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Zapiski iz mertvago doma. [Memoirs from the House of the Dead]. St. Petersburg: Iosafat Ogrizko, 1862. First complete edition of this early masterpiece by Dostoevsky, greatly appreciated by Tolstoy and which Lenin described as an 'unsurpassed work of Russian and world literature'. Dostoevsky's passionate description of life in a Siberian prison camp is based on his own experience; it 'provided the Russian public with its first, terrifying image of what lay ahead for those sentenced for a political crime [...] No writer was now more celebrated than Dostoevsky, whose name was surrounded with the halo of his former suffering' (Frank). This edition follows the publication of volume one only, by Eduard Prats, and the serialization in the periodical Vremia , both also in 1862. Frank, Dostoevsky. The Stir of Liberation , p.140; Kilgour 279 (this edition). Two parts in one vol., octavo (209 x 135mm). With the half titles (possibly without final blanks, scattered spotting and soiling). 19th-century Russian quarter leather, paneled spine lettered in gilt, cloth sides paneled in blind (rebacked with most of the original spines laid on, new endpapers); in a custom-made cloth box.
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