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Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de... Alexandre III et l'Imperatrice Marie Féodorovna en l'année 1883. [St Petersburg:] Expedition pour la Confection des Papiers de l'Etat, 1883.
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ALEXANDER III (1845-1894)
Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de... Alexandre III et l'Imperatrice Marie Féodorovna en l'année 1883. [St Petersburg:] Expedition pour la Confection des Papiers de l'Etat, 1883.
First edition of Alexander III's sumptuously illustrated coronation album. Printed for members of the Russian imperial family and foreign dignitaries, this large and impressive production was never offered for public sale. Fekula 2112 ('very rare').
Folio (660 x 510mm). Text in French, and printed in black, blue and red, 27 chromolithographic plates, including the title, after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savitskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makorov, Bogdanov, Grigor'ev, Aleksandrovskii, Surikov and Samokish, decorative initials and illustrations in the text, many chromolithographed (some light offsetting from plates onto the text). Original dark green morocco-backed cloth, upper cover richly gilt incorporating the Russian imperial eagle, spine with imperial regalia blocked in gilt, lower side blocked in blind, white moiré endpapers, edges gilt (extremities faintly rubbed, front free endpaper spotted and lower corner creased and slightly torn), with the original plain grey-blue dust jacket (covers detached, worn with tears, soiling and some spotting).
Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de... Alexandre III et l'Imperatrice Marie Féodorovna en l'année 1883. [St Petersburg:] Expedition pour la Confection des Papiers de l'Etat, 1883.
First edition of Alexander III's sumptuously illustrated coronation album. Printed for members of the Russian imperial family and foreign dignitaries, this large and impressive production was never offered for public sale. Fekula 2112 ('very rare').
Folio (660 x 510mm). Text in French, and printed in black, blue and red, 27 chromolithographic plates, including the title, after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savitskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makorov, Bogdanov, Grigor'ev, Aleksandrovskii, Surikov and Samokish, decorative initials and illustrations in the text, many chromolithographed (some light offsetting from plates onto the text). Original dark green morocco-backed cloth, upper cover richly gilt incorporating the Russian imperial eagle, spine with imperial regalia blocked in gilt, lower side blocked in blind, white moiré endpapers, edges gilt (extremities faintly rubbed, front free endpaper spotted and lower corner creased and slightly torn), with the original plain grey-blue dust jacket (covers detached, worn with tears, soiling and some spotting).
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Julian Wilson
Senior Specialist, Books, Maps & Manuscripts