PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837) – Blagonamerennyi. N. 10, 11/12. [The Well-Meaning. Nos 10, 11/12.] St Petersburg: Alexander Izmailov, May and June 1821. Two parts, including a double-number, in one volume, 4° (197 x 119mm). (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). Provenance: ‘N. 1514’ (ink shelf mark on front free endpaper).

PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837) – Blagonamerennyi. N. 10, 11/12. [The Well-Meaning. Nos 10, 11/12.] St Petersburg: Alexander Izmailov, May and June 1821. Two parts, including a double-number, in one volume, 4° (197 x 119mm). (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). Provenance: ‘N. 1514’ (ink shelf mark on front free endpaper).

FIRST EDITION. Issue number 10 includes a life-time publication of ‘Moldavskaia pesnia’ from Pushkin’s Kavkazskii Plennik. Rare: WorldCat lists just one copy at Stanford; no sale recorded in on-line ABPC or RBH. Smirnov-Sokol’skii Pushkin 53.