Vasilisa Prekrasnai︠a︡

1902 · [S.-Peterburg] : Izdanīe Ėkspedit︠s︡īi zagotovlenīi︠a︡ gosudarstvennykh bumag · 4 pictures

A Russian fairy-tale picture book of "Vasilisa the Beautiful," illustrated by Ivan Bilibin and printed in colour lithography by the State Paper Printing Office in St. Petersburg in 1902 for child readers. Flat-colour forest scenes with heavy black outline sit inside patterned borders of birch trunks, fish, birds and folk ornament, offering embroidered costume detail, skull-topped fence motifs, sirin bird-maidens and title panels in Slavic display lettering.

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