PUSHKIN, Alexander and Ivan BILIBIN. Zolotoi Petushok. [The Golden Cockerell.] Moscow: S.I. Zimin, 1909. Small 4° (225 x 188mm). Frontispiece printed in blue and gold, 24 colour printed vignettes mounted-in, and illustrations throughout, after Bilibin. Original illustrated wrappers printed in black and gold (spine ends chipped, lower cover neatly reattached, some wear to yapp edges). Provenance: a contemporary Russian reader (small inscription deleted from the title).
One of Pushkin's finest ironic poems, illustrated with Bilibin's costumes and set-designs for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera production.
PUSHKIN, Alexander and Ivan BILIBIN. Zolotoi Petushok. [The Golden Cockerell.] Moscow: S.I. Zimin, 1909. Small 4° (225 x 188mm). Frontispiece printed in blue and gold, 24 colour printed vignettes mounted-in, and illustrations throughout, after Bilibin. Original illustrated wrappers printed in black and gold (spine ends chipped, lower cover neatly reattached, some wear to yapp edges). Provenance: a contemporary Russian reader (small inscription deleted from the title).
One of Pushkin's finest ironic poems, illustrated with Bilibin's costumes and set-designs for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera production.
![PUSHKIN, Alexander and Ivan BILIBIN. Zolotoi Petushok. [The Golden Cockerell.] Moscow: S.I. Zimin, 1909. Small 4° (225 x 188mm). Frontispiece printed in blue and gold, 24 colour printed vignettes mounted-in, and illustrations throughout, after Bilibin. Original illustrated wrappers printed in black and gold (spine ends chipped, lower cover neatly reattached, some wear to yapp edges). Provenance: a contemporary Russian reader (small inscription deleted from the title).](/lot-images/5211149/2009/CSK/2009_CSK_05822_0253_000(115016).jpg?maxwidth=3840)