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KRYLOV, Ivan Andreevich.

Basni I. Krylova [Krylov's Fables].

Basni I. Krylova [Krylov's Fables].

Stock Code 113078

St Petersburg, A.S. Suvorin, 1895

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Wonderful Art Nouveau binding. An excellent illustrated edition of Krylov's fables in a wonderful Art Nouveau binding.

Ivan Krylov (1769-1844) is Russia's best known fabulist. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La Fontaine's, later fables were original work, often satirising the incompetent bureaucracy that stifled social progress at the time.

8vo (220 x 150 mm); 2 portraits, 2 full-page illustrations & 27 illustrations in the text; publisher's decorative green cloth gilt, edges of spine and corners slightly bumped, a very good copy.

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