PUSHKIN, Alexander – Blagonamerennyi. N. 30-39. [The Well-Meaning. Nos 30-39.] St Petersburg: Alexander Izmailov, 1822. 10 parts in one volume, 4° (196 x 123mm). (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary Russian tree calf, sides with gilt roll-tooled border, flat spine tooled in compartments, green morocco labels, edges yellow (rebacked preserving the original spine, traces of large bookplate removed from front free endpaper).

PUSHKIN, Alexander – Blagonamerennyi. N. 30-39. [The Well-Meaning. Nos 30-39.] St Petersburg: Alexander Izmailov, 1822. 10 parts in one volume, 4° (196 x 123mm). (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary Russian tree calf, sides with gilt roll-tooled border, flat spine tooled in compartments, green morocco labels, edges yellow (rebacked preserving the original spine, traces of large bookplate removed from front free endpaper).

FIRST EDITION. Issue number 36 includes a life-time publication of ‘Voinskie uprazhneniia i igry cherkesov’ from Pushkin’s Kavkazskii Plennik, and a review by Izmailov of Pushkin’s book. Rare: WorldCat lists just one copy at Stanford; no sale recorded in on-line ABPC or RBH. Smirnov-Sokol’skii Pushkin 53.