GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil’evich (1809-1852). Pokhozhdeniia Chichikova, ili Mertvyia dushi. Poema. [The Adventures of Chichikov, or Dead Souls. A Poem]. Moscow: University Press, 1842. The first edition, a wide-margined, crisp copy. ‘One of the great novels of nineteenth-century Russia' (Fekula). This first part of Gogol's famous satire was printed in an edition of 2400 copies with money borrowed from Pogodin. A second part was published by Gogol's heirs in 1855 from draft notes found after the author's death. Both K. Aksakov and V. Nabokov have drawn parallels between Dead Souls as an epic composition and Homer's works, whilst others have framed it within the genre of the picaresque novel, not previously attempted in Russian literature. Fekula 4716; Kilgour 345; Smirnov-Sokol'ski, Moia biblioteka , 610. Octavo (245 x 155mm). (Without the half-title, some spotting, as often). Contemporary Russian half sheep, flat spine titled and tooled in blind (head of spine repaired, end-papers renewed). Provenance: R.P. Tvil'khovskij (bookplate at front) – ‘V.L.’ (small ink initials at front with acquisition date 7.VII.70).
GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil’evich (1809-1852). Pokhozhdeniia Chichikova, ili Mertvyia dushi. Poema. [The Adventures of Chichikov, or Dead Souls. A Poem]. Moscow: University Press, 1842. The first edition, a wide-margined, crisp copy. ‘One of the great novels of nineteenth-century Russia' (Fekula). This first part of Gogol's famous satire was printed in an edition of 2400 copies with money borrowed from Pogodin. A second part was published by Gogol's heirs in 1855 from draft notes found after the author's death. Both K. Aksakov and V. Nabokov have drawn parallels between Dead Souls as an epic composition and Homer's works, whilst others have framed it within the genre of the picaresque novel, not previously attempted in Russian literature. Fekula 4716; Kilgour 345; Smirnov-Sokol'ski, Moia biblioteka , 610. Octavo (245 x 155mm). (Without the half-title, some spotting, as often). Contemporary Russian half sheep, flat spine titled and tooled in blind (head of spine repaired, end-papers renewed). Provenance: R.P. Tvil'khovskij (bookplate at front) – ‘V.L.’ (small ink initials at front with acquisition date 7.VII.70).
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