STEPANOV, Nikolai Aleksandrovich (1807-1877). Karrikatury [Caricatures]. St. Petersburg: A. Beggrov, 1855.
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STEPANOV, Nikolai Aleksandrovich (1807-1877). Karrikatury [Caricatures]. St. Petersburg: A. Beggrov, 1855.

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STEPANOV, Nikolai Aleksandrovich (1807-1877). Karrikatury [Caricatures]. St. Petersburg: A. Beggrov, 1855.

3 original parts, oblong 2° (305 x 440mm approx.). 30 hand-coloured lithographic plates by V. Romanov and P. Mech after Stepanov. (Some spotting and discolouration, a few with minor frays.) Loose as issued in original brown paper wrappers, the upper covers with lithographic titles (lightly frayed and dust-soiled).

COMPLETE SET. Illustrated throughout with satirical drawings after Stepanov, the pre-eminent caricaturist of 19th-century Russia, and published before the increased censorship of the 1860s and 1870s that severely curtailed these type of publications. Smirnov-Sokolskii Biblioteka 4225; Obolianinov 2598; Fekula 6569.

Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891) and thence by decent