Leo Tolstoy | The Heritage Press, New York | Two-Volume Set in Slipcases | Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg & Vassily Verestchagin | Revised Maude Translation, 1938 copyright
A beautifully produced two-volume Heritage Press edition of Tolstoy's epic masterpiece — one of the most ambitious illustrated printings of the novel available in English. This set features two distinct illustrators: Fritz Eichenberg, whose pen drawings appear throughout the first volume, and Vassily Verestchagin, the celebrated nineteenth-century Russian battle painter, whose dramatic colour and tonal reproductions illuminate the second. The combination gives the set an unusual visual richness that reflects the novel's own dual registers — intimate family drama and the sweep of Napoleonic war.
The text is the revised Maude translation, prepared specifically for the Limited Editions Club in 1938 and available in no other edition. Louise and Aylmer Maude — who had lived on Tolstoy's estate for six years — devoted their careers to translating his works, and this revision, corrected by Aylmer Maude just before his death in 1938, is considered their definitive rendering. The volumes include a special introduction and notes by the translators.
Bound in deep crimson cloth with silver titling and a cameo vignette on the boards. Includes fold-out colour illustrations. Complete in two volumes, housed in the original publisher's grey slipcases.
Bibliographic Details
Title: War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Translation: Louise & Aylmer Maude (revised)
Illustrators: Fritz Eichenberg (Vol. I); Vassily Verestchagin (Vol. II)
Publisher: The Heritage Press, New York
Copyright: 1938 (Limited Editions Club, Inc.)
Format: Two-volume hardcover set in publisher's slipcases
Binding: Crimson cloth with silver lettering and vignette
No dust jackets (issued without)
Condition
Near Fine (books); Good (slipcases). Both volumes tight and clean, bright pages throughout, no markings or inscriptions, firm bindings, appears unread. Boards bright with minimal wear. Slipcases present and structurally sound, showing shelf wear and surface rubbing consistent with age.
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