Peryshko Finista Yasna-Sokola. Skazki. St. Peterburg, 1902. / The Feather of Fin

In Russian. Short description: The Feather of Finist the Falcon. [Peryshko Finista Yasna-Sokola]. Fairy tales. St. Petersburg, 1902. Drawings by I. A. Bilibin. Permitted by the censorship. In Russian. Short description: Hauntingly beautiful chromolithographic images by Ivan Bilibin. 32x26 cm, 12 pp., featuring 7 chromolithographs in addition to front cover and the rear cover vignette. Two of the chromos within are full page. In addition, there is the chromo decorative borders, very much a part of the integral whole. This work is part of a series of indigenous fairy tales the Russian government commissioned Bilibin to illustrate. To do so Bilibin paid meticulous care to actual traditional costume, architecture and d?cor. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS000338 kn_nat