Nikolaj Vasiljevič Gogol (1809-1852)

MRTVÉ DUŠE

1900
Book format 2°, 35.7 × 27 cm. VII, 571 numbered pp., in Russian. Title page printed in black and red. Frontispiece with a portrait of N. V. Gogol (steel engraving), further 10 heliogravures on separate leaves and 355 illustrations in the text by various artists: V. A. Andreyev, A. F. Afanasyev, N. N. Bazhin, V. I. Bystrenin, M. M. Dalkevich and others. Published by A. F. Marx in St. Petersburg in 1900. The most luxurious pre-revolutionary edition of the works of N. V. Gogol. Contemporary publisher’s half-leather (“Leipzig”) binding with gilt and coloured tooling and printing on spine and boards, top edge gilt, cloth dust wrapper. Slight signs of use and traces of mould, overall good condition.