Item
I.A. Krylov: Basni
- Title
- en_US I.A. Krylov: Basni
- Description
- en_US Language note: Russian
- I.A. Krylov
- Creator
- en_US Krylov, Ivan Andreyevich See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Tseytlin, N.
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:11:27Z
- 2020-05
- en_US 1969
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:11:27Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1969
- Abstract
- en_US I had just catalogued the 1971 version of this engaging Russian pamphlet of 32 pages when I noticed this 1969 version offered on Ebay. It was all the more important for me because I had already included in the collection a 1969 version but without the front and back covers shared by the other two. While this is a confirmation that that 1969 version was probably published with this cover, I will leave all three in the collection as another fascinating curiosity. What is different here from the 1971 version includes three things. First is the date on the title-page. Second is the typesetting of the colophon material on the back cover. I will leave it to Russian readers to decipher how much the colophon data themselves may have changed. The third change is more surprising. This copy confirms that the young woman eating grapes facing the full-page illustration of FG, present in both 1969 copies, disappears in 1971! Only the baskets of freshly plucked grapes remain! The inside back cover features a crow in a tree, while the front cover offers four cameos of principal animal characters from the fables. The verso of the front-cover is a gouache of Krylov in his red and black striped robe composing with a writing quill. The illustrations are strong and colorful. Often there is an echo of the facing full-page illustration on the text page. For example, a female monkey points to a mirror on the right-hand page while a male bear looks on in the full-page illustration to the left. 8⅜" x 10⅞".
- Identifier
- en_US 12348 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US rus
- Publisher
- en_US Detskay Literatura
- en_US Moscow
- Subject
- en_US PZ64.2 .K793 1969 See all items with this value
- I. A. Krylov See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books