TOLSTOY, Leo (1828-1910). Soedinenie i perevod chetyrekh evangelii [Integration and Translation of the Four Gospels]. Geneva: M. Elpidine, 1892, 1893, 1894. The rare first edition of Tolstoy's controversial translation of the gospels , which led to his eventual excommunication from the Orthodox Church. The work was banned soon after the first volume was published, with parts two and three particularly rare. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. Tolstoy's translation is from the Greek, which he taught himself from 1870. Consistent with his view that religion is a falsification and exploitation of spirituality, Tolstoy omitted any passages that he deemed miraculous, legendary or contradictory. His more widely read Gospel in Brief consists of extracts from this longer, earlier work. WorldCat apparently locates just three copies outside of Russia: at Harvard's Houghton Library, Biblitothèque de Genève, and the British Library. Not in Kilgour. Three volumes in one, octavo (193 x 138mm). (Margins yellowed; occasional light wear and soling to the edges.) Contemporary Russian brown half leather, spine gilt (light wear to the extremities). Provenance : N.S. (initials gilt on the spine); occasional light penciled marginalia.
TOLSTOY, Leo (1828-1910). Soedinenie i perevod chetyrekh evangelii [Integration and Translation of the Four Gospels]. Geneva: M. Elpidine, 1892, 1893, 1894. The rare first edition of Tolstoy's controversial translation of the gospels , which led to his eventual excommunication from the Orthodox Church. The work was banned soon after the first volume was published, with parts two and three particularly rare. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. Tolstoy's translation is from the Greek, which he taught himself from 1870. Consistent with his view that religion is a falsification and exploitation of spirituality, Tolstoy omitted any passages that he deemed miraculous, legendary or contradictory. His more widely read Gospel in Brief consists of extracts from this longer, earlier work. WorldCat apparently locates just three copies outside of Russia: at Harvard's Houghton Library, Biblitothèque de Genève, and the British Library. Not in Kilgour. Three volumes in one, octavo (193 x 138mm). (Margins yellowed; occasional light wear and soling to the edges.) Contemporary Russian brown half leather, spine gilt (light wear to the extremities). Provenance : N.S. (initials gilt on the spine); occasional light penciled marginalia.
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