[PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837), BORROW, George (1803-1881)]. The Talisman. From the Russian of Alexander Pushkin . With other pieces. St Petersburg: Schulz and Beneze, 1835. First edition of the first English translation of Pushkin’s works. The author, George Borrow was an agent of the Bible Society, a keen linguist and traveller. He lived in St Petersburg in 1833-1835; there he completed his English translations of Pushkin, whom he never got to meet. This collection features Pushkin’s The Talisman and The Mermaid , as well as an ancient Russian song, a Ukrainian ballad and The Renegade from the Polish original by Adam Mickiewicz. RBH records no other copies being offered at auction for the past forty years. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka . Octavo (250 x 164mm). Uncut (somewhat dusty at margins, slight spotting). Modern half morocco, cloth boards, marbled endpapers, spine gilt. Provenance : Simon Nowell-Smith and Judith Adams Nowell-Smith (bookplates).
[PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837), BORROW, George (1803-1881)]. The Talisman. From the Russian of Alexander Pushkin . With other pieces. St Petersburg: Schulz and Beneze, 1835. First edition of the first English translation of Pushkin’s works. The author, George Borrow was an agent of the Bible Society, a keen linguist and traveller. He lived in St Petersburg in 1833-1835; there he completed his English translations of Pushkin, whom he never got to meet. This collection features Pushkin’s The Talisman and The Mermaid , as well as an ancient Russian song, a Ukrainian ballad and The Renegade from the Polish original by Adam Mickiewicz. RBH records no other copies being offered at auction for the past forty years. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka . Octavo (250 x 164mm). Uncut (somewhat dusty at margins, slight spotting). Modern half morocco, cloth boards, marbled endpapers, spine gilt. Provenance : Simon Nowell-Smith and Judith Adams Nowell-Smith (bookplates).
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