Lermontov's works in two volumes. With the award inscription of Maria Tikhomirova from the Imperial educational ...

Lermontov's works in two volumes. With the award inscription of Maria Tikhomirova from the Imperial educational society of noble maidens.
Fifth edition.

SPb. Publication of the bookseller Glazunov. 1882 XXXVI, 627 p.; 664 p. With a portrait and one facsimile in the first volume. Hardcover with gold lettering, size 15 x 21.5 cm. Good - very good condition, small dirt and tears of bindings. Pre-revolutionary stamps and gift inscriptions of the forties on titles. In the first volume the award inscription:

"Maria Nikolaevna Tikhomirova, a pupil of the Imperial educational society of noble maidens, was most graciously awarded this book for her good behavior and excellent achievements in the Sciences", with the signatures of a member of the Council for academic Affairs and an inspector of classes.

This edition of Lermontov's works contains all significant amendments and additions that appeared in print after the 1880 edition. The General order of distribution of the poet's works remains the same, and only minor changes are made in the particulars necessary to give a more accurate chronological order based on new manuscripts and instructions. By placing in the Annex I that the novel "Princess Ligovsky" and making in II that the newly discovered poem "Sashka" edition, in order to avoid unnecessary increase in the size and cost of publication, did not dare, however, to reprint the works of an earlier time, namely: children's poems that appeared in the "Russian Thought" and "youth drama" of the poet, published in 1880 book. A detailed description of their contents, the most characteristic passages and the full text of the drama "Masquerade", published in previous editions, are repeated in the current one.