VERY RARE 1994 RUSSIAN RUSSIA GUSTAVE DORE BIBLE GALLERY PRINTS 11X8 ILLUSTRATED

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VERY RARE 1994 RUSSIAN RUSSIA GUSTAVE DORE BIBLE GALLERY PRINTS 11X8 ILLUSTRATED:
$34.99

From 1994, what is probably the first Russian edition of Gustave Dore\'s Bible Gallery, featuring the wonderful prints. Sized 11x8 inches, 469 pages. Great condition. Handsomely bound in a leather pattern. We have not seen this item before.
In 1866, the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) published a series of 241 wood engravings for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible popularly known as the Bible de Tours. This new edition was known as La Grande Bible de Tours and its illustrations were immensely successful. They have been reproduced countless times worldwide, influencing the visual arts and popular culture in ways difficult to measure.
La Grande Bible de Tours was a large folio (“grand in folio”) edition published in two volumes simultaneously by Mame in Tours, France and by Cassell and Company in England in 1866. The French translation known as the Bible de Tours had originally been published in 1843 and was done by Jean Jacques Bourassé (1813-1872) and Pierre Désiré Janvier.
The series comprises 139 plates depicting scenes from the Old Testament, 21 from the Apocrypha (deuterocanonical books), and 81 from the New Testament.