Ivan Andreevich Krylov, Nikolai Evguenevich Popov (Illustrator)
Sto basen I. Krylova.
Moscow: Sovremennik, 1990. First edition. Edition and foreword by Evgeny Nikolaevich Lebedev. 5270001519 197 pages
Volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 10", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. Text is in Russian.
Full-page color drawings and vignettes illustrate 100 fables by Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors.
Nikolai Popov (b. 1938) is a well-known Russian visual artist and illustrator. He has won multiple gold medals and Grand Prix at international exhibitions of children’s book illustration.