ATKINSON, John Augustus.

A picturesque representation of the manners, customs,

and amusements of the Russians, in one hundred coloured plates.

Stock Code

107772

London, Bulmer, 1804

£15,000

A superb example of Atkinson's A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians, attractively bound in contemporary red morocco.

These plates [...] show the spontaneity and spirit possible when the artist is his own engraver. [...] The colouring is skilfully done, in soft washes' (Abbey). Many subjects are here dealt with for the first, and often only, time in a European publication.

This is the second of Atkinson's works to be published after his return from St. Petersburg. He accompanied his uncle James Walker there when the latter had been appointed engraver to the Empress Catherine and had returned in 1801 after 18 years spent in Russia. Dedicated to Alexander I, whose portrait is in frontispiece.

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First edition, 3 volumes bound in one; folio (45 x 31.5 cm); half-titles, engraved frontispiece, 100 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Atkinson, text in English and French; light toning on first few leaves, occasional light offsetting, some spotting in volume II (plates 54-56), contemporary full red morocco gilt by Staggemeier & Welcher with their ticket to front pastedown, all edges gilt, a fine copy.