Эти небольшие статьи и чуть большие заметки суть «опавшие листья» из почти розановского, теперь «третьего короба». В «коробе» нашего альманаха это уже одиннадцатая подача. В ней стихотворная сюита «Галантные празднества» французского поэта Верлена в венке рисунков русского художника Соломко соседствуют в тесной дружбе с книгами и автографами Ильфа-Петрова и Багрицкого, оригинальным фотопортретом и авторским списком стихотворения Соловьева — внука и полного тезки знаменитого историка.

Yakov Berdichevskii. FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A BOOK-PROSPECTOR

These small articles and larger notes are the essence of “fallen leaves” from the post of Rosanov, now the “third box”. This is already the eleventh transmission in “the box” of our anthology. The box includes “Gallant Festivals” by Paul Verlaine in a wreath of drawings by Sergey Solomko merged in close friendship with books autographed by Ilf-Petrov and Eduard Bagritsky, photograph and poem by S.M.Soloviev.

Эссе повествует о выдающемся мастеру деревянной гравюры, библиофилу и романтику.

Yakov Berdichevskii. WOOD ENGRAVER-ROMANTIC: NIKOLAI VLADIMIROVICH PUZYREVSKII

Devoted to the master of wood engraving, bibliophile, and romantic.

Краткая информация о творческом единстве трех московских ксилографов в искусстве книжного знака и трудах для изданий Русского общества друзей книги (РОДК).

Yakov Berdichevskii. MOSCOW MASTERS OF ENGRAVING: BOOKPLATES AND WORKS FOR PUBLICATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF THE BOOK

Concise information about the creative unity of the three Moscow wood engravers in the art of the bookplate and their designs for publications of the Russian Society of Friends of the Book (RODK).

Yakov Berdichevskii. LIBRARY OF A COSSACK GENERAL

Yakov Berdichevskii. FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A BOOK-PROSPECTOR

The eighth “Book-Prospector”,just as its predecessors, is concise, following the classic precept: to write so that it will be less of words and a lot of thoughts, without imposing the author’s own perceptions — only the factual material. The episodes are not related to each other, they are chronologically distant from each other (from the 17^th to the mid-20^th Century). One thing unites them — the closely intertwined fate of books and the fate of people, and this is what we refer to by such a beloved word “bibliophilia”. Here is we found the interest of the interest of the German Emperor Wilhelm II to a rare edition of “Peter Simile”, to the most valuable — one of the 25 illuminated — copy of Pushkin’s “Gavriiliada”, embellished by a German artist and published in Berlin, and a book from the library of the old noble family of Sulima tells the complicated history of its owner. Because the main character of bibliophilia is not only and not so much a Book, but a Person himself.

Yakov Berdichevskii. BOOKS AND BOOKPLATES OF EVGENII OSIPOVICH BURGUNKER

Relates the career of a provincial boy from the Black Sea coast, through the workshop of V.A.Favorskii to the heights of design and illustration of masterpieces of Russian and world classical literature, numerous foreign and domestic exhibitions, diplomas, medals, bookplates.