TransliterationPeryshko Finista Yasna-Sokola. Skazki. St. Peterburg.

Author: I. A. Bilibin

Publication Date: 1902

Publication Place: St. Petersburg.

Description: Please feel free to request a detailed description. Short description: The Feather of Finist the Falcon. [Peryshko Finista Yasna-Sokola]. Fairy tales. St. Petersburg, 1902. Drawings by I. A. Bilibin. Permitted by the censorship. In Russian. Hauntingly beautiful chromolithographic images by Ivan Bilibin. 32x26 cm, 12 pp., featuring 7 chromolithographs in addition to front cover and the rear cover vignette. Two of the chromos within are full page. In addition, there is the chromo decorative borders, very much a part of the integral whole. This work is part of a series of indigenous fairy tales the Russian government commissioned Bilibin to illustrate. To do so Bilibin paid meticulous care to actual traditional costume, architecture and décor. SKUMS000338 kn_nat

SKU: lom-MS000338