London: Hurst & Blackett, 1854. First Edition in English. Sadleir 985. Publisher’s cloth; two volumes; wear at the extremities; hinges cracked; author’s name and title “Dead Souls” in ink on the title page of the second volume; author’s name in pencil on the title page of the first volume; a very good set in a custom slipcase. The Russian censors imposed the title The Adventures of Chichikov on this publication in 1842, but the English publisher curiously chose an even more innocuous title having little to do with the subject or theme of the novel. Shortly before his death in 1852, Gogol destroyed the second part of his manuscript. A rare book.

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