I.A. Krylov: Basni (Selected Fables)

Title

en_US I.A. Krylov: Basni (Selected Fables)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Russian

en_US I.A. Krylov; Editor: Sv. Rakitin

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:25Z

en_US 2010-10

en_US 1951

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:25Z

Date Issued

en_US 1951

Abstract

en_US This book is worth the high price I paid for it. It works generally in four-page or six-page units. The first right-hand page has a title, small design, and visual artist's name. The verso of that page is a full-page illustration. Facing is the first page of the pages of text. The verso of the last page of text includes a larger repeat of the design that first appeared with the title. To guess from the indication on the final T of C, twenty-three of the twenty-five fables presented here are illustrated by G. Rajcev. The other two are illustrated by Iv. Vazov and Todor Xarmandznev. These names seem not to agree with the names given under individual titles. Perhaps the smaller designs are done by these three artists, and the full-page illustrations, which vary a great deal in style, are done by the artists listed with the titles. The explosion of the frog of OF on 11 is cataclysmic! Two of the three graphics for Death and the Woodcutter (19-22) are appropriately dark, and the third shows both light and footsteps leading back home. FG is a strong silhouette (28). The Ass and the Nightingale (37-40) includes green tint in all four of its illustrations. Other fables similarly include green and yellow tints. Is that The Old Man and the Tree with the touching illustrations of gardening and of ships going down (80-86)? The illustrations for BF (95-98) are as good as black-and-white illustrations can get for this fable. The canvas-covered spine of this book is breaking down. The front cover features an elephant and pug, and the title-page adds an ass and nightingale. This is an excellent Krylov edition!

Identifier

en_US 7234 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82508

Publisher

en_US Narodna Prosveta

en_US Sofia, Bulgaria

Subject

en_US PG3337.K7 B333 1951 See all items with this value

en_US I.A. Krylov See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole