Author : Kalinovsky, A. Year of publication: 2013 Format: Hardback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: New Category: Travel / leisure Cost of book: £651 Price negotiable: No
Specifics:
4to., 1 kg., 53 p. Limited edition of 25 signed and numbered copies (this is #6/25). Reprint: Printing by A. Iakovlev, St.-Petersburg, 1900. Language: French and Russian. Includes the Annex with numerous photos. The book is individually hand-sewn and bound in hand-crafted and tooled full red shagreen. Custom-made paper “Conqueror” by Arjowiggins. The front cover handsomely hand-tooled in gilt and blind embossing with black and blue shagreen circle insert medallion in the centre depicting the mountain landscape. The back cover elaborately tooled in blind. The spine divided into five panels hand-tooled in gilt and blind embossing lettered in the second and the forth with green and blue shagreen inserts, the others with ornamental tools with raised bands tooled in gilt. The hand-marbled paper doublures and endleaves. Doublures ornately hand-tooled in gilt. Red colored top edge gilt and hand engraving. The fore edge and bottom edges are sculpted by hand. Contained within a custom-made red slipcase with shagreen edging with gilt fillet roll. The colors shade captured on photos may slightly differ from the original.
