ID 1105671
Lot 159 | ALEXANDER III (1845-1894)
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 7 500
Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de... Alexandre III et l'Imperatrice Marie Féodorovna en l'année 1883. [St Petersburg]: Expedition pour la Confection des Papiers de l'Etat, 1883.
First edition of Alexander III's sumptuously illustrated coronation album. Printed for members of the Russian imperial family and foreign dignitaries, this large and impressive production was never offered for public sale. Bobins III, 990 (another copy); Fekula 2112 ('very rare'); cf. Lipperheide Sk 11.
Folio (660 x 510mm). Text in French, and printed in black, blue and red, 27 chromolithographic plates, including the title, after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savitskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makorov, Bogdanov, Grigor'ev, Aleksandrovskii, Surikov and Samokish, decorative initials and illustrations in the text, many chromolithographed (plate 24 with very short marginal repaired tear, some light spotting mostly confined to text). Original dark green morocco-backed cloth, upper cover richly gilt incorporating the Russian imperial eagle, spine with imperial regalia blocked in gilt, lower side blocked in blind, white moiré endpapers, edges gilt (head of spine with small chip and tear, corners repaired, the gilt slightly dulled, extremities lightly rubbed, front pastedown torn and repaired without loss).
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