ROERICH. Рерих K. Baltrushaitis, A.N. Benois, A.I. Gidoni, A.M. Remizov i S. Yaremicha Iaremich... Levitsky

Numbered 279 of 500 copies. Original cream-coloured cloth, gilt-rolled edges, gilt device to upper board, spine ornately gilt. Decorated endpapers, 238 pp., 30 hors-texte printed and decorated tissue protected colour plates, tipped-in colour and two tone reproductions to nearly every page, decorated head and tail pieces throughout. Index. Decorations by Vladimir Levitsky, Narbut and others. Original Levitsky decorated dust-wrapper present but defective and neatly laid in. A good copy. Clean and tight. Just a little damp spotting and mild browning Роерихъ. БАЛТРУШАЙТИСЬ. БЕНУА. ГИДОНИ. Magnificent and very rare and important monograph on Nicholas Roerich Николай Константинович Рерих. Sets for Prince Igor reproduced pp140-3. Contains high quality reproductions of Roerich’s paintings and texts of ten short fairytales and fables by Roerich. The author and Symbolist poet examines the art as an example of Symbolist aesthetics while the artist Benois examines the art. Художественная монография. Под редакцией Левитского В.Н. Текст: Балтрушайтис Ю.К., Бенуа А.Н., Гидони А.И., Ремизов А.М., Яремич С.П. Десять сказок и притч Н.К.Рериха. – Пг.: Свободное искусство, 1916.