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KHUDEKOV, SERGEI NIKOLAEVICH. Istorija Tantsev [History of Dances]. Volumes 1-3 (of 4). Color pictorial additional titles and a profusion of full-page and text illustrations, mostly in color, by K. Makovsky et al. Together, 3 volumes. 4to, 314x241 mm, original decorated cloth stamped in gold, rebacked with original backstrips laid down, scattered scuffing, some rubbing and a few bumps, but still tight and attractive; some toning to preliminaries, lacks mounted illustration on page 55 in Volume 1, inner corners of Volume 3 pastedowns reinforced with blue cloth. St. Petersburg, 1913-15
scarce first edition of the most comprehensive Russian-language history of dance to appear before the Revolution. The first 3 volumes deal with dance in antiquity and ballet in Europe through the end of the 19th century. Accounts differ concerning the publication of the fourth volume, on Russian dance, but apparently few copies survive. Niles & Leslie I, 248-49.
