RUSSIAN SILVER -- [?TARASOV, Mikhail.] TOLSTOI, Aleksei (1883-1945). Petr Pervyi. Roman v trekh knigakh. [Peter the Great. A Novel.] St. Petersburg: Gos. Izdat. Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1947. 4° (348 x 250mm). Plates throughout by D.M. Shmarinov. Modern blue morocco, the upper cover mounted with an earlier silver plaque with the mark 'MT', probably Mikhail Tarasov, Moscow 1908-1917, with a repoussé, chased and engraved design showing Gamayun perched in front of a fortress against a sky enamelled en plein and highlighted with gold filaments, above a wide reserved field framed with foliate scrolls and pendants, the back cover with modern metallic bosses.

RUSSIAN SILVER -- [?TARASOV, Mikhail.] TOLSTOI, Aleksei (1883-1945). Petr Pervyi. Roman v trekh knigakh. [Peter the Great. A Novel.] St. Petersburg: Gos. Izdat. Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1947. 4° (348 x 250mm). Plates throughout by D.M. Shmarinov. Modern blue morocco, the upper cover mounted with an earlier silver plaque with the mark 'MT', probably Mikhail Tarasov, Moscow 1908-1917, with a repoussé, chased and engraved design showing Gamayun perched in front of a fortress against a sky enamelled en plein and highlighted with gold filaments, above a wide reserved field framed with foliate scrolls and pendants, the back cover with modern metallic bosses.

A FINE SILVER PLAQUE BY TARASOV showing Gamayun, the prophetic creature of Russian folklore.