The first Russian translation of The Egoist, with a contemporary inscription, presumably in a clerical hand, ‘To George Meredith from the Translator’ in black ink to the front flyleaf. Zinaida Vengerova was probably the most prolific Russian-language translator and commentator on contemporary world literature, and travelled widely throughout Europe. She was in London during the late 1880s, when she befriended the Stepniaks, Constance and Edward Garnett and Eleanor Marx.
Rare. OCLC and WorldCat both only note the British Library copy, which also has a personal association, having a letter from the translator enclosed.
Slight wear to extremities of binding, corners heavily bumped, a little staining to boards, but still sound.
Collie, George Meredith a Bibliography, p. 272: the first translation of The Egoist.
