| Zelinskii, F[addei] F[rantsevich] (1859 - 1944) [Zieliński, Tadeusz Stefan] |
Iresiona. Atticheskie skazki. IV. Kamennaia niva. Peterburg, [Izd-vo M. i S. Sabashnikovykh,] 1922 46, [1 p.,] 1 plate,ills., vignettes. | €125 |
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| 8 vo., very attractive publisher´s covers and initials designed by V. M. Konashevich, vignettes and end - tails designed by N. D. Enman, a Russian artist of British background.This publication was typeset under supervision of I. Anisimov, a prominent book designer and book culture historian. VERY GOOD TO MINT.VERY RARE in this condition at post-Perestroyka Russian antiquarian market. Last copy in such condition was sold for €100 at Copenhagen Book Fair in 2004 by a prominent American antiquarian bookseller. A beautiful and crisp copy of a desired book. Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich (1888 - 1963 ), born in, Novocherkassk was a prolific Russian graphic artist and illustrator. Among his artwork are scores for Manon Lescaut and Andersen's The Fairy Tales and numerous illustrations to a great number of children books. Konashevich also illustrated all major children books of Samuil Marshak and his circle. His works for the publishing house Academia and old IM. and S. Sabashnikovy publishing house are still treasured by bibliophiles and collectors of illustrated books and albums worldwide. See: Konashevich V.M. O sebe i svoem dele. M., 1968. For Konashevich and Enman see also Bio-bibliograficheskii slovar´khudozhnikov narodov SSSR [...] One of the major works published by prominent Polish classical philologist, historian, translator before his departure from Soviet Russia. Zielinski´s translations of Sophocles, Euripides and other classical authors into Russian brought him fame already in early 1900s. Author of works on history of ancient Greek culture and religion, classical education (published largely in Russian and German). While in St.Petersburg, was closely associated with Vyacheslav Ivanov and Innokentii Anneskii. Professor at the University of St. Petersburg (1890–1922), then at Warsaw University (1922–1939) in the interwar Poland. Recipient of Honorary doctorates from the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1930), and twelve western European universities. Between 1933–1939 Zieliński was a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature. His daughter became wife of Prof. Vladimir Beneshevich executed by the Soviet regime in 1938. Adrian Piotrovsky was his natural son. His last days in Bavaria turned into a greater tragedy. See:'Polska Akademia Literatury'. Encyklopedia Onet.pl, [...] 2011; Zieliński, Tadeusz (1922). 'Homeric psychology'. Our debt to antiquity. NY., Kennikat Press ( ISBN 0-8046-1205-6) ; The Religion of Ancient Greece: An Outline. Freeport, NY, Books for Libraries Press, (1926) 1970 ( ISBN 0-8369-5222-7) ; Barta, Peter I, Larmour David H.J. and Miller, Paul Allen eds. Russian Literature and the Classics. Langhorne, [...] 1996 (Studies in Russian and European Literature, Vol. 1) Major work on TZ achievements in Russia and Poland: R. Zaborowski, 'Tadeusz Zieliński (1859-1944) - sa vie et son œuvre.' In: Annales du Centre Scientifique à Paris de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences 12, 2009, pp. 207–222.) [1909]. Our debt to antiquity. NY, Port Washington, Kennikat Press [...] Not in MOMA |