Russian & Eastern European

Duodecimo (19 x 12.7 cm). XVII, 241 pp.; foxing, occasional spotting, lacking all 7 plates. Contemporary brown half-calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and library shelf mark to spine; slightly rubbed.

Large print engraved by Charles G Lewis after Barker, with etching, engraving and stipple engraving (145 x 86 cm); some closed tears in the lower margin, not affecting the plate.

Quarto (26.5 x 18.3 cm). 90 numbered plates coloured by hand, Russian, German and French captions in the plate; first plate spotted, small traces of mount to the versos. Later vellum with manuscript score; soiled.

First edition, small 8vo (17.5 x 12.5 cm); ink ownership inscription to title-page, sticker to verso of upper wrapper; original printed wrappers with futurist design, some repairs to spine.

First edition; 2 parts in one volume; folio (65.6 x 48 cm); title and dedication, text in French and Italian, 180 engraved plates including two frontispieces, wide-margins, some minor foxing to titles but otherwise plates in excellent condition; modern quarter black morocco and marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt title.

First edition, limited edition of 500 copies, this copy hors serie; 4to, illustrated with 30 plates by Grigoriev with tissue guards; publisher's special binding for the owner of half vellum over boards, title gilt stamped to upper cover as well as 'The Moscow Art Theatre...Special Edition by Order of Morris Gest'.

Folio (37.4 x 28); hand-coloured engraved title-page, title-pages in English and French, dedication leaf to Princess Elizabeth, illustrated with 72 colour plates with text in English and French, marbled endpapers, some foxing to free endpapers otherwise very fresh, text block slightly detached from lower board; contemporary brown calf over brown boards, title in gilt to spine, spine and edges worn.

First separate edition; 8vo (220 x 150 cm); original printed wrappers with art nouveau design, internally fresh, slight wear to covers with small loss to top of lower cover, spine glued, a good copy; 62pp, advertisement leaf at rear.

First edition; folio (34 x 23 cm); illustrated title-page, 60 plates (of which 5 are in colour) and three colour charts, lower quarter slightly bent; original printed wrappers, minor stain, wear to edges and short close tear, internally fresh, a good copy.

First Russian edition; small 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm); five parts in 2 vols; all parts with own half-titles and titles; occasional spotting, light marginal waterstain to several ll. in V part. Contemporary brown calf, gilt spines, initials 'A.M.' in gilt to lower spines, gilt edges; upper cover of vol. one partly split, lower spine of vol.II slightly chipped, traces of removed exlibrises on upper pastedowns.