[SAMMELBAND OF 3 WORKS] - Nikolai Palkin [bound with other works - see below].

Bound with the first Russian editions of:

SERION, Anna [SEURON].
Shest let v dome grafa Lva Nikolaievicha Tolstogo
[Six Years at the Household of the Count Tolstoy. Trans. from German by S. Sergiievskii].
Tip.-lit. Minkova, Skt Peterburg, 1895

[AND OF:]

TOLSTOY, Lev and Nadezhda ZHIVAGO (artist).
Assiriiskii tsar Assarkhadon. Tri voprosa
[The Assyrian King Assarkhadon. Three questions].
Tip.-lit. Kushnerev, Moskva, [1903].

Attractive Sammelband of works by and about Tolstoy, most in first Russian editions, including one illustrated by Nadezhda Zhivago.

Full notice available upon request

Provenance
Sir Isaac Shoenberg (1880-1963, a British electronic engineer of Belarus descent best known for his contribution to the development of the first fully electronic television system); by descent, the scholar Peter Gatrell and his wife Jane; acquired directly from their estate.

Description
Three works in one vol. 8vo (20 x 14 cm; Palkin smaller: block 18.5 x 11.5 cm). Palkin: 29 pp. inc. title, [3] pp. publisher's announcements and catalogue; Shest let: half-title, title, frontispiece with portrait of Tolstoy, 106, [2] pp. t.o.c.; Assarkhadon: 30 inc. title and leaf with ill., [1] p. ill., with illustrations in text.
Binding
Later straight-grained brown morocco spine over burgundy cloth, spine with raised bands without lettering, third work with printed lower wrapper bound in
Condition
Spine very lightly sunned; except a couple of marginal spots to a few leaves of second work, very clean and fresh, third work with light trace of horizontal fold.ref: [2346]