BARATYNSKII, Evgenii Abramovich (1800-1844). Eda, finliandskaia povest’, i Piry, opisatel’naia poema. [Eda, a Finnish Tale, and Feasts, a descriptive Poem.] St Petersburg: Press of the Department of Popular Education, 1826.
8° (215 x 140mm). With half-title. (Margins lightly browned, occasional spotting.) Uncut in the original printed grey wrappers (slightly soiled, spine with tear and chipped at foot).
FIRST EDITION OF BARATYNSKII’S FIRST BOOK, IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Belinsky remarked of Pushkin's closest rival that ‘of all the poets who appeared at the same time as Pushkin, pride of place undoubtedly belongs to Baratynsky’. Eda captures his transition from classicism to romanticism. Kilgour 101; SSb 499.
BARATYNSKII, Evgenii Abramovich (1800-1844). Eda, finliandskaia povest’, i Piry, opisatel’naia poema. [Eda, a Finnish Tale, and Feasts, a descriptive Poem.] St Petersburg: Press of the Department of Popular Education, 1826.
8° (215 x 140mm). With half-title. (Margins lightly browned, occasional spotting.) Uncut in the original printed grey wrappers (slightly soiled, spine with tear and chipped at foot).
FIRST EDITION OF BARATYNSKII’S FIRST BOOK, IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Belinsky remarked of Pushkin's closest rival that ‘of all the poets who appeared at the same time as Pushkin, pride of place undoubtedly belongs to Baratynsky’. Eda captures his transition from classicism to romanticism. Kilgour 101; SSb 499.
![BARATYNSKII, Evgenii Abramovich (1800-1844). Eda, finliandskaia povest’, i Piry, opisatel’naia poema. [Eda, a Finnish Tale, and Feasts, a descriptive Poem.] St Petersburg: Press of the Department of Popular Education, 1826.](/lot-images/5840608/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01568_0075_000(baratynskii_evgenii_abramovich_eda_finliandskaia_povest_i_piry_opisate095244).jpg?maxwidth=3840)