Author: Golikov, Ivan (and) Dennis Ward, (and) L. A. Dmitriev
Title: The Tale of the Host of Igor, Igor the Son of Svyatoslav, Grandson of Oleg
Description: Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1985. Hardcover. A brown, quarter cloth casebound book with glossy pictorial boards. The front cover is a full-color illustration. The front and back free and pasted end pages feature full-color designs . Pages: (4), 5-98, (2). Profusely illustrated with more than thirty-five full-color images. The text at the beginning of the book is in Russian. There is an English translation of the poem and of an essay at the end of the book. Written in imitation of Old Russian lettering and illustrated by the Palekh master Ivan Golikov in 1934. English translation of the Tale and notes on its translating by Dennis Ward; a critical essay and commentary by Lev Dmitriyev, translated from the Russian by Cathleen Cook. VG: Some wear to the corners of the cover boards. Otherwise a beautiful copy, with clean pages and bright illustrations. The binding is strong.

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