![]() ![]() Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Text clean, cloth fresh, gilt bright corners and spine ends only gently rubbed. Owner signature dated 1887 later gift inscription. ![]() Line, Russian Literature in English Translation, 29. Serialized from 1825-32 and first issued in its entirety in Russian in 1833. Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, his unique ‘novel in verse,’ introduces a “14-line stanza, with an intricate pattern of masculine and feminine rhymes,” and is valued by the Russians “beyond any other work of their most cherished writer… Like Stendhal’s Rouge et Noir, which appeared about the same time, the Russian work was a pioneer effort… It marks the beginning of Russia’s literary maturity… The poem is Pushkin’s major performance and the one which gives the fullest measure of his genius” (Avrahm Yarmolinsky). Rare first edition in English of Pushkin’s masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a cornerstone of Russian literature, translated by Lieutenant-Colonel Spalding. “MARKS THE BEGINNING OF RUSSIA’S LITERARY MATURITY”: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF PUSHKIN’S EUGENE ONEGIN-A LOVELY COPY ![]()
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