I.A. Krylov: Basni

Title

en_US I.A. Krylov: Basni

en_US The Big Illustrated Library of Classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: Russian

en_US V.P. Bitrovneva

Creator

en_US Butromeev, V.V. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:21Z

en_US 2005-10

en_US 2003

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:21Z

Date Issued

en_US 2003

Abstract

en_US This is a major addition to the collection. It is the deluxe Russian edition of Ivan Krylov's fables published in the special series The Big Illustrated Library of Classics. Large format (8 x 10½). Very heavy. 648 pages. As Victor writes, Every page of this book is abundantly illustrated with thousands of pictures showing the history of illustrations beginning from the first editions of fables by Ivan Krylov. The book includes all fables of Ivan Krylov from his nine books as well as fables not included in them, comic fables, and fables imputable to Krylov. It includes portraits of Krylov by artists of XIX-XX centuries, chronicles of life and creative work, geography of his life, historical anecdotes about Krylov, chronology of writing and publishing of his fables, chronology of translations of Krylov's fables into foreign languages, an index of names and characters in Krylov's fables, and a big bibliography of editions of Krylov's fables including those in foreign languages. It is the first such Russian edition of Krylov. I am happy to have found this book! A fable like I 6, OF, has seventeen illustrations (30-35). WL gets twelve illustrations (50-53). GA (112-17) has fifteen. Quartet gets fifteen devoted to the fable (215-221). Perhaps the grand prize goes to The Soup of Master John (277-285), which has eighteen illustrations of the fable and eight other illustrations. Doré and Grandville are frequently represented here. Apparently when the editor comes across a less worthy fable, he shows us the covers of various Krylov editions. For a panoply of photographs of covers and texts, see 74-75, 274-275, 346-347, 502-503, and 530-531. I learned on 374 that there is a wooden push-pull toy representing WC. Now let us see if I can find it! Fables beyond those usually represented in Krylov's nine books seem to begin on 533. A gallery of portraits of Krylov begins on 548 and a chronology on 552. At the very back there is a T of C, and a colophon page.

Identifier

en_US 9785779306492

en_US 5779 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81280

Language

en_US rus

Publisher

en_US Bely Gorod Publishing

en_US Moscow

Subject

en_US PG3337.K7 B3 2003 See all items with this value

en_US Krylov See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole