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Hardcover. 1957, 1958, 1959, 1965. All volumes: Textured grey linen/boards. Green title block on spine. Gilt lettering and image. Color-illus. dj with gold bottom band; black lettering on white spine. Vol. I: 385 pp. with 311 illus.; Vol. II: 310 pp. with 263 illus.; Vol. III: 554 pp. with 378 illus.; Vol. IV: 555 pp. with 351 illus. All volumes have mostly bw illus. but a few in color, as well as occasional bw line drawings. Heavy at 22 pounds and will require extra postage. Text in German. The history of Russian art. Volume I begins with the oldest art of Eastern Europe, the art of Kievan Russia, and on through the 13th-14th centuries, including the Vladimir-Susdal art. Volume II covers the art of Novgorod and Pskov from the 12th to 16th centuries. Volume III covers the history of art in Moscow up to the 18th century. Volume IV concerns the 18th century artistic culture: architecture, sculpture, graphics, miniature paintings, paintings, decorative arts (esp. gold and silver) and more. Beautiful and informative. Four volumes from a set of 6, each on a different aspect of Russian art history. VG, clean, tight contents and covers. Djs Good/Good-. All vols. art school ex-lib. with usual marks. Djs have chipping at edges, and Vol. I dj has 2 one-inch tears and a small piece out of the back.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Thirteen volumes in 16 make up a complete set of this magisterial encyclopedia of the history of art and artists in Russia and the eventual Soviet Union. Published volume by volume between 1953 and 1969. Russian language texts and with Cyrillic characters, too, which have been omitted here. Bound handsomely in gray buckram cloth, with titles to covers and spines stamped sharply in burgundy, and with neat horizontal borders to spines and blind-stamped borders and designs to covers. Silk-linen ribbon bookmarks attached to each and every volume. Mild wear and tear to volumes beyond some bruised but unbroken tips, occasional waffling of short portions of text-blocks; they look most handsome on the shelf and were made the sturdier by the library-reinforcing tape to front and rear gutters of each volume. Tariff tickets laid in here and there, some tariff-related ink-stamps here and there, unobtrusive. Simple printed bookplate of Valerie A. Tumins graces inside front flap of several volumes, she having been a Professor of Russian history, religion and literature at the University of California-Davis (1965-1991) before dying in 2011. Dr. Tumins was born in Vologda, Russia, and grew up in Riga, Latvia. This set, a fine-looking reprint of the original, was put under the general editorship of B.C. Kemehoba and was edited expertly by the important Russian post-Impressionist artist Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (born on 25 March 1871 in Budapest, died 16 May 1960 in Moscow) and who became a publisher and restorer of Russian and Soviet art. His Wikipedia entry notes that he trained under "Ilya Repin in Saint Petersburg and by Anton A?be in Munich. He reached his peak in painting in 1903?1907 and was notable for a peculiar divisionist painting technique bordering on pointillism and his rendition of snow." Grabar had by then established himself also as an art critic and historian. Between 1910 and 1915, Grabar edited and published this, his opus magnum, writing on architecture, and the other artists and art historians he commissioned writing on painting, the graphic arts, sculpture and other media. Several hundred illustrations in black-and-white, printed on fine paper, and many being full-page. Comprised of the following: Tom I: (1953), [4], 5-573 [2] pp., with "Introduction," by G. Y. Sternin; Tom II (1954), [6], 7-423 [2] pp., featuring "The Art of the Ancient Slavs," by B. A. Rybakov; Tom III (1955), [6], 7-745 [2] pp., with a chapter by Y. N. Dmitriev and I. E. Danilova entitled "The 17th Century and its Culture"; Tom IV (1959), [6], 7-797 [2] pp., with a chapter "Novgorod Velikiy," by V. N. Lazarev; Tom V (1960), [6], 7-569 [2] pp. including "Introduction," by T. V. Alekseeva; Tom VI (1961), [4], 5-492 [4] pp., "Introduction" by N. N. Kovalenskaia; Tom VII (1961), [6], 7-507 [3] pp., "Introduction" by R. S. Kaufman; Tom VIII, Part 1 (1963) (some scuffing to spine head and foot, crimping to tips in rear, unobtrusive), [6], 7-706 [2] pp., "Introduction" by R. S. Kaufman; Tom VIII, Part 2 (1964), [6], 7-665 [3] pp., "Introduction," by D. E. Arkin and N. N. Kovalenskai; Tom IX, Part 1 (1965), [6], 7-440 [2] pp., "Introduction" by F. S. Rokotov and A. N. Savinov; Tom IX, Part 2 (1965), [6], 7-585 [2] pp., "The Art of the Central Russian Principalities Of XIII- XV Century," by N. N. Voronin and V. N. Lazarev; Tom X, Part 1 (1968), [6], 7-508 [2] pp., "Introduction" by I. E. Grabar and O. I. Podobedova; Tom X, Part 2 (1969)(some bruising to bottom edge and spine bottom, slight waffling of cloth to front cover), [6], 7-557 [3] pp., "Introduction," by V. I. Surikov and V. S. Kemenov; Tom XI 1957), [4], 5-445 [2] pp., "Satirical Graphics of the 1860s," by P. M. Shmelkov and N. Y. Zograf; Tom XII (1961), [6], 7-613 [2] pp., "The First Events of the Soviet Government In the Fields of Art," by N. N. Lebedev; Tom XIII (1964), [8], 9-403 [22] pp. All in, a most handsome set indeed, and scarcely available to the trade in this condition and state.Member, I.