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PROPERT, W. A.

The Russian Ballet in Western Europe, 1909-1920.

Stock Code
104794
London & New York, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1921
£2,000

The Ballets Russes was still very much active at the time of publication but had already made an incredible impression on critics and audiences alike. It includes numerous essays including one dedicated to Diaghilev (who had asked Propert that his name be mentioned as seldom as possible) as well as an essay by Eugene Aynsley Goossens on the music composed for the troupe.

The original title-page and tail-pieces were designed by Goncharova and it is richly illustrated by Bakst, Benois, Roerich, Picasso, Sudeikin amongst others.

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Description

Limited edition, one of 450 copies for America, this being number 79, 4to (33.5 x 27 cm); title-page in black and red designed by Goncharova who also designed the tail-pieces, frontispiece of Diaghilev, 66 plates tipped in on grey paper after Bakst, Benois, Fedorovsky, Golovin, Goncharova, Larionov, Picasso, Sert, Roerich, Sudeikin and others, mostly in colour, some slight foxing to prelims; original marbled boards and white cloth spine with title in gilt, spine extremities bumped, a good copy.

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