Ostrovsky, [Poverty is no vice], Moscow, 1854, original green printed wrappers

OSTROVSKY, ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH

Bednost ne porok, komediya [Poverty is no vice, a comedy]. Moscow: V. Gote, 1854

8vo (243 x 160mm.), 100pp., original green printed wrappers, occasional light foxing, lower corner of upper cover torn

First separate edition, dedicated to Prov Sadovsky, one of the principal actors in Ostrovsky's plays. A satire on Westernised Russians, with a Russian drunkard as the hero, popular in Moscow, but less so in St Petersburg.

PROVENANCE:
Gabriel Jaques Rosenberg

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