Beschreibung:

[STRAKHOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (1768-1843)]. Satiricheskii vestnik. [The Satirical Bulletin]. Moscow: V. Okorokov at the University Press, 1790-92. Complete set of the first edition issues of this very popular literary journal, edited by the satirist N.I. Strakhov, of whom little is known. A parody of the periodical Moskovskie vedomosti , it was published in nine parts in the course of two years. Each was divided into two sections: a satirical message with a fictional place and date, followed by announcements or advertisements and parodies on sundry genres and topics, including recipes, auctions, news and personal diaries. RBH records no other complete first edition sets having been offered at auction. SK XVIII IV, 232; Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka , 1961. L.A. Trakhtenberg, ‘Russkii satiricheskii zhurnal XVIII veka’, p. 64. Nine parts in three volumes, octavo (165 x 95mm, 172 x 100mm, 170 x 100mm). (Paper softened, occasional thumb marks, 1: small paper flaw to outer blank margin of one leaf, 2: first title a bit frayed at margins, 3: very faint water stain to lower margins). Contemporary mottled calf, vol. 2 with patterned endpapers, spines tooled in blind, blind-lettered labels (joints and extremities a bit rubbed, minor loss at head and foot, 2-3: upper joint cracked but firm). Provenance: A.V. Kokorev (stamp to ffep, titles, last and few other leaves) – stamp ‘M4’ (last leaf or rear free endpaper) – 1: stamp ‘Magazin 14’ (rear free endpaper) – 2: stamp ‘Magazin 15’ (rear free endpaper) – 1 and 3: contemporary autograph and ex-libris of Denis Petrov (front endpapers).