From Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A. Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 03 September 2014
First thus. (A reprinting with a slightly different title, different preliminary matter, and no frontispiece, of an 1803 edition. Line, Ettlinger & Gladstone: p. 21, Karamzin 2., second entry.) xii, 262 pp. with one illustrated plate. 19th century leather backstrip with paper-covered boards. About Very Good with wear to boards along edges, rubbing, and strip of toning to front board; a few pencil marks on paste down, marginal dampstain to plate at p. 204., a few dog-eared pages. A rare collection of stories by a Russian author sometimes compared to Lawrence Sterne. One of the earliest Russian works to be translated into English, long before the late 19th century boom. Seller Inventory # 140938832
Title: Tales from the Russian by Nicolai Karamsin
Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson by G. Sidney, London
Publication Date: 1804
Condition: About Very Good
Edition: First Thus.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Front. port, plates; some browning in prelims. Contemp. quarter maroon roan, marbled boards, spine with gilt devices; sl. rubbing, but an attractive copy. Contains four prose works: Lisa (Bednaia Liza, 1792); Flor Silin (Flor Silin, 1791); Natalia (Natalya, 1792); Julia (Iulia, 1796). This collection was first published in 1803, with the slightly different title Russian Tales, with a portrait and a plate. This copy has been bound with the plates from the first edition. The translator is identified in BL as A.A. Feldborg, described in the preface as a 'native of Denmark'. These works constitute some of the earliest prose translated from Russian into English, and are very scarce. Three copies on Copac: BL, Oxford, Queen's Belfast. Line: Karamzin 2. Seller Inventory # 73294
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