ANNA KARENINA BY LEO TOLSTOY 1901 FINELY BOUND IN TWO VOLUMES BY BAYNTUN RIVIERE

ANNA KARENINA BY LEO TOLSTOY 1901 FINELY BOUND IN TWO VOLUMES BY BAYNTUN RIVIERE

£1,500.00

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[TOLSTOY, LEO]. Anna Karenin. London: William Heinemann, 1901.

New edition, publisher's 'Presentation Copy' (discretely blind stamped to title-pages), complete in two volumes, leather-bound, hardcover, royal octavo (22.5cm x 15.5cm), pp. [8], 493; [6], 426. English text, translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Finely bound in half crushed morocco by Bayntun Riviere (their ink pallet to front endpapers), gilt ruled and tooled covers, top edge gilt, fore edge and bottom edge unevenly cut, marbled endpapers, half-titles, portrait frontispieces with original tissue-guards, title-pages printed in red and black. Printed by T. and A. Constable. Condition: NEAR FINE. Bindings tight and secure with the hinges and joints perfectly intact, couple of very minor faint marks to covers. Trivial spots to fore edge, else fresh and clean, without previous ownership markings; an exquisite copy and scarce thus.

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