VASNETSOV, Viktor -- Sokrashchennyi Molitvoslov. [Abridged Psalter.] [St. Petersburg:] M.O. Volf [c.1880s]. Small 2° (183 x 150mm). Chromolithographed title, frontispiece, plates, and recto of text leaves printed within elaborate and varying chromolithographed borders, some of these with figurative scenes. (4 leaves loose but present, occasional spotting). Contemporary morocco by Engel of Paris, sides and spine with elaborate strap-work morocco onlays, gilt edges, purple moirsilk endpapers (front hinge split, extremities lightly rubbed).

VASNETSOV, Viktor -- Sokrashchennyi Molitvoslov. [Abridged Psalter.] [St. Petersburg:] M.O. Volf [c.1880s]. Small 2° (183 x 150mm). Chromolithographed title, frontispiece, plates, and recto of text leaves printed within elaborate and varying chromolithographed borders, some of these with figurative scenes. (4 leaves loose but present, occasional spotting). Contemporary morocco by Engel of Paris, sides and spine with elaborate strap-work morocco onlays, gilt edges, purple moirsilk endpapers (front hinge split, extremities lightly rubbed).

ONE OF VOLF'S FINEST PUBLICATIONS, with excellent Russian Revival chromolithographed plates and borders unsigned but probably by Viktor Vasnetsov, and in an excellent binding with strap-work morocco onlays. Fekula 494.