MAKSYMOVYCH, Mykhailo (1804-73).

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Lot 180 | MAKSYMOVYCH, Mykhailo (1804-73).
MAKSYMOVYCH, Mykhailo (1804-73).

Ukrains‘ki narodni pisni [Ukrainian Folk Songs]. Part 1 [all published]. Moscow: Universitetskaia printing shop, 1834.

First edition of a rare, early collection of Ukrainian folk songs. The Ukrainian ethnographer, philologist and botanist Maksymovych was among the earliest to travel the countryside, recording local folklore and observing peasants’ way of life. His first compilation was published in 1827. This second collection contains 1) Ukrainian Dumas; 2) Remembrance Cossack Songs; and 3) Cossack Domestic Songs. He published a third collection of folk songs in 1849. In transcribing the songs he used a new orthography for Ukrainian which went on to influence modern written Ukrainian. His and other collections ‘made a decisive turn in national literature’ (Kowalsky, Ukrainian Folk Songs, 1925, p.63). Maksymovych was educated at Moscow University, professor and first rector at St. Vladimir University at Kyiv (where the library is named after him) and friend of compatriot Nikolai Gogol. Not in WorldCat; KVK locates one copy in Paris (Bib. Univ. des langues et civilisations).



Octavo (204 x 129mm). (Some faint browning.) Contemporary half calf over patterned paper boards, flat spine tooled in compartments, lettered in second (lightly rubbed, a little loss at lower corners. Provenance: probably [Alexander Aleksandrovich] Kotlyarevsky (1837-81, archaeologist and ethnographer, professor at Tartu, Estonia, and Kyiv; inscription when a student in the Historic Philology Faculty) – Ivan Alexandrovich Vsevolozhsky (1835-1909; Director of the Russian Imperial Theatres and of the Hermitage; bookplate).





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