GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil’evich (1809-1852). Pokhozhdenija Chichikova, ili Mertvyja Dushi…Tom vtoroj. [The Adventures of Chichikov, or Dead Souls…Vol. 2]. Moscow: University Press, 1855. The first edition of volume 2 of Gogol’s ‘literary landmark’ originally conceived in three parts mirroring Dante’s Commedia (Terras). The much awaited first volume was published in 1842, with the censors’ agreement that the words ‘dead souls’ should not appear in the main title. The second volume, on which Gogol worked until 1852, was published after his suicide, based on four chapters and part of a fifth discovered among his papers. Kilgour 348; Fekula 4719; not in Smirnov Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka . Terras, Handbook of Russian Literature, p.294. Octavo (238 x 150mm). Complete with folding plate of author’s manuscript facsimile (lacking the first half-title, lower margin of title trimmed, some mainly light dampstaining, ink stain to three leaves, contemporary annotation to one leaf). 19th-century Russian half sheep, spine gilt and blind tooled (spine sunned, extremities a little rubbed). Provenance : A.V. Ivanov and M.R. Ivanov (contemporary ex-libris on front endleaf) - 'Akademkniga’ (stamp on rear pastedown).
GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil’evich (1809-1852). Pokhozhdenija Chichikova, ili Mertvyja Dushi…Tom vtoroj. [The Adventures of Chichikov, or Dead Souls…Vol. 2]. Moscow: University Press, 1855. The first edition of volume 2 of Gogol’s ‘literary landmark’ originally conceived in three parts mirroring Dante’s Commedia (Terras). The much awaited first volume was published in 1842, with the censors’ agreement that the words ‘dead souls’ should not appear in the main title. The second volume, on which Gogol worked until 1852, was published after his suicide, based on four chapters and part of a fifth discovered among his papers. Kilgour 348; Fekula 4719; not in Smirnov Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka . Terras, Handbook of Russian Literature, p.294. Octavo (238 x 150mm). Complete with folding plate of author’s manuscript facsimile (lacking the first half-title, lower margin of title trimmed, some mainly light dampstaining, ink stain to three leaves, contemporary annotation to one leaf). 19th-century Russian half sheep, spine gilt and blind tooled (spine sunned, extremities a little rubbed). Provenance : A.V. Ivanov and M.R. Ivanov (contemporary ex-libris on front endleaf) - 'Akademkniga’ (stamp on rear pastedown).
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