LA SAINTE RUSSIE

Vasili, Count Paul (pseudonym), possibly written by the Polish Princess Catherine Radziwill: LA SAINTE RUSSIE. Firmin-Didot, Large 4to (29×21.5cm) Half title, woodengraved portrait frontispiece, title, preface, 550, (1) pp., one folding map and 2 plans with printed tissue guards, 4 chromolithograph plates with printed tissue guards and 197 woodengravings in text after various artists, including 37 full- and double-page; rare light spotting. Original red morocco-backed cloth bound by Engel, richly gilt and tooled by Paul Souze after a design by A. Giraldon, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, blue silk bookmark, Paris, (1890).