Sochineniia [Works]. GOGOL, Nikolai Vasileevich.

Large 8vo (27 x 19 cm); portrait frontispiece; full contemporary red cloth, gilt and black art-nouveau decoration to upper cover and spine, direct gilt lettering to both, blind-stamped art-nouveau decoration to lower cover, patterned endpapers, small loss of decorative black detail, a very good copy. An unusually fresh and attractive example of this compact edition, using the standard text established by Tikhonravov and Shenrok: the first, a great scholar and foremost expert on Gogol published in 1889 the 10th edition of Gogol's works in 5 volumes. This was recognised as an unprecedented and remarkable attempt at a scientific-critical publication, setting the canon for Gogol's text for a long time. After his death, Vladimir Shenrok completed Tikhonravov's work and published the 6th and 7th volumes in 1896. Shenrok prepared the preface for this edition and added a short biography at the beginning. The dense volume includes of course all of Gogol's masterpieces, from the play Revizor to the novel Dead Souls, here complete, together with his brilliant novellas and short stories.