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"But ere she loosed his hold, Ivan Tsarevitch had plucked from her shining tail a single plume." Tipped-in illustration plate for "Ivan Tsarevitch & the Gray Wolf" in Skazki: Tales & Legends of Old Russia told by Ida Zeitlin (Farrar & Rinehart, 1926). There follows three other plates from this lovely book.

      

"Now I have brought thee here without thy will, & thou shalt play until I bid thee cease." An illustration for the Russian fairy tale "Sadko the Merchant" as told by Ida Zeitlin in Skazki. This elegant book has many tipped-in color plates, but even more extremely elegant black-&-white illustrations reminiscent of Eric Pape.

      

"But lo! through the heathen line a knight came riding." Illustration for the heroic fantasy tale "Ruslan & Lyudmila" in Skazki.

      

"And on its summit a lovely maiden stood, & a ring of fire enclosed her round-about." This tipped-in plate illustrates "The Snake-Tsarevna" from the extensively illustration-rich volume Skazki. The above four selected plates by no means exhausts the wealth of gorgeous illustration in this beautiful book, which features also an embossed binding & full color pictorial endpapers.

   

 

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