Author : Year of publication: 2015 Format: Hardback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: New Category: History Cost of book: £814 Price negotiable: No
Specifics:
4to, 1,7 kg., 408p. Limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies (this is #39/100). Language: Russian. The book includes the etching depicting hoisting of the victory flag over Reichstag. The was created especially for this edition etching and is made on the basis of the real war time photo. The book also includes the portraits of the Marshals of the Soviet Union. The book is individually hand-sewn and bound in hand-crafted and tooled full dark cherry shagreen. Custom-made paper “Olin” by Arjowiggins. The front cover elaborately hand-tooled in gilt, blind and color embossing including the colour image of the Order of Victory at the centre. The back cover tooled in blind embossing. The spine divided into five panels, with gilt and color embossing compartments, lettered in the second, the others with floral and ornamental tools with raised bands tooled in gilt. The hand-marbled paper doublures and endleaves. Doublures ornately hand-tooled in gilt. All edges are sculpted by hand. Contained within a custom-made matching wood-pattern paper with shagreen edging slipcase. The colors shade captured on photos may slightly differ from the original.This book was published on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the great victory of the Soviet Union in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945 by publishing house "Leather mosaic" as a tribute to the unfading feat of our fathers and grandfathers. We sought to make this book as a real masterpiece, worthy to be kept in the museum, since it seems to be extremely important to keep the memory of this great victory. Why did we chose marshals to impersonate the hardest and at the same time glorious wartime? Because the marshals had planned and put into practice the tremendous troop movements, lightning attack tank armadas, the encirclement and destruction of thousands of groups of enemy. The Soviet marshals stood at the forefront of the Victory, which was won by the Soviet people. The names of the Soviet marshals represent the victory over the enemy.
