[CORONATION ALBUM].
Description du Sacre et du Couronnement
de leurs Majestés Impériales l'Empereur de Toutes les Russies Alexandre III et l'Imperatrice Marie Feodorovna en l'année 1883.
Stock Code
98824
St Petersburg, A. Ilin for the Expedition pour la confection des papiers d'Etat, 1883
£37,500
Description
First edition; large folio (66 x 51 cm); 27 chromolithographs, including title, after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savitskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makorov, Bogdanov, Grigor'ev, Aleksandrovskii, Surikov and Samokish, decorative initials and illustrations in the text, many chromo-lithograph, text printed in black, blue and red (occasional spotting, some offsetting from plates onto the text, adhesion to text from two plates); original dark green morocco-backed cloth, upper cover richly gilt incorporating the Russian imperial eagle, spine with imperial regalia blocked in gilt with small restorations, lower side blocked in blind, white moiré endpapers, all edges gilt.
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Stock ID:98824
