Kotliarevskyi, Ivan (author) and Anatolii Bazylevych (illustrator)

Eneida [Aeneid]

Kyiv: Mystetstvo, 1971. Item #1519

Oblong quarto (20 × 17 cm). Unpaginated; contains 12 vividly colored plates illustrated by Anatolii Bazylevych. Each plate is accompanied by a corresponding excerpt from Kotliarevskyi's text and housed in the original illustrated folder. The folder shows some light edgewear and minor surface rubbing.

A strikingly illustrated edition of Eneida, Ivan Kotliarevskyi’s seminal Ukrainian burlesque of Virgil's Aeneid, first published in 1798 and widely recognized as the first literary work written entirely in modern Ukrainian vernacular.

Price: $120.00