PUSHKIN, Alexander – Literaturnyi muzeum na 1827 god. [The Literary Museum for 1827.] Edited by Vladimir Izmailov. Moscow: by S. Selivanovskii for Alexander Shilder, 1827. 8° (125 x 89mm). With errata leaf. Folding plate of musical notation. (Light scattered spotting.) Contemporary leather-backed purple cloth (rebacked preserving old gilt spine). Provenance: A.K. (initials at spine foot).

PUSHKIN, Alexander – Literaturnyi muzeum na 1827 god. [The Literary Museum for 1827.] Edited by Vladimir Izmailov. Moscow: by S. Selivanovskii for Alexander Shilder, 1827. 8° (125 x 89mm). With errata leaf. Folding plate of musical notation. (Light scattered spotting.) Contemporary leather-backed purple cloth (rebacked preserving old gilt spine). Provenance: A.K. (initials at spine foot).

FIRST EDITION. Includes the first appearance in print of Pushkin’s poems ‘Solovei’ [‘V bezmolvii sadov, vesnoi, vo mgle nochei...’], and ‘Ispanskaia pesnia’, set to music by Verstovskii. This rare literary collection also includes first publications by Zhukovskii, Gnedich, Baratinskii, and other contemporary poets. WorldCat locates only the Kilgour copy at Harvard; no sale recorded on ABPC or RBH. Kilgour 640; Smirnov-Sokol’skii Almanacs 283; Smirnov-Sokol’skii Pushkin 75.