GOGOL (Nicolas).
Taras Bulba. Translation by Jarl Priel. Paris, La Pléiade, 1931. In-4, red morocco, boards decorated with a large mosaic composition in various tones and partly slightly recessed, evoking Cossack folk embroidery, smooth spine with gilt title, red and blue suede lining and endpapers, gilt and chased head, untrimmed, cover and spine, folder and case (Castiglioni XII-2014).
Edition illustrated with 32 original etchings in colors, including 10 hors texte, by Alexandra Grinevsky.
Edition at 110 copies on vellum of Rives, this one enriched, placed in frontispiece, with an original gouache not signed.
Alexandra Grinevsky (1899-1976), actress at the Pitoëff theater, was the wife of the artist Alexandre Alexeieff.
Thematic binding whose decoration evokes the Cossack folk embroidery.
