Skazka o Zolotom Pietushkie [The Tale of the Golden Cockerel] Advertising - Original artwork Tan pictorial stiff card wrappers

Tan pictorial stiff card wrappers with decoration and titles printed in black to both front and back wrappers with wear along spine

Central City Colo

7-1/16" x 4-1/4" (180 x 108 mm)

" signed in ink by John Harrison Stonehouse as "Inventor" and Miss Currie as "Artist

A current global sweep of the OCLC/WorldCat database locates only one specimen matching a similar configuration preserved in institutional special collections worldwide: a structurally related ten costume overlay variant held securely within the permanent archives of the Morgan Library & Museum

Skazka o Zolotom Pietushkie [The Tale of the Golden Cockerel] Advertising - Original artwork Tan pictorial stiff card wrappers(Bilibin, Ivan) illustrator. SKAZKA O ZOLOTOM PIETUSHKIE [THE TALE OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL] by Alexander Pushkin. [St. Petersburg]: [Ekspeditsiia Zagotovleniia Gosudarstvennykh Bumag], 1907. FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio 10 1 16" X 12 7 8". Color pictorial beige stiff paper wrappers with the spine covered with light brown paper as issued, with titles printed in black, and decorative border and five medallions printed in black, purple, green, yellow, blue