Paperback. Orange wraps with dark blue lettering; 16 pp.; richly illustrated. This extremely rare item is inscribed in Cyrillic and signed in English. "With reproductions of 20 pictures by David Burliuk from the State Museums of the Soviet Union and Private Collections." -- WorldCat. Good- (Wraps are detached from the textblock and heavily worn/sunned/scuffed; interior has some cockling/edgewear/toning/foxing/chipping at the edges.) Inscribed in Cyrillic and signed in English, by the Artist.
Published by 1922, 1922
Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB), Stockholm, Sweden
First Edition
Large 4to. Pp. 56 + eight leaves, each with tipped-in colour plate. Many b/w illustrations in the text. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spine with five raised bands and title labels, lightly rubbed. Bookplate. Old inscription on front endpaper. Original printed wrappers withbound. First edition, limited to 750 copies.Interesting documentation of the Soviet State Porcelain Factory, previously the Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory (before 1917). Published under the direction of Jean Lazarevsky. Vignettes and the front wrapper is designed by Sergei Chekhonin and J. Roehrberg. The illustrations depict works of art by Natalja J. Danko, Sergey Tchehonine, Constantin Kousnetzoff, Alexandra Shchekotikhina, etc. Scarce. >>.