Pesn o Veshchem Olege (Song Of Oleg the Wise)

St. Petersburg: Ekspeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1899. Stiff Wraps. Orig. color printed cover. Very good/Near fine. Folio, 33 x 23 cm. Four color lithographed plates, decorative initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Vasnetsov. Six accordion-folded leaves, [leporello style] with a printed page as front cover and another as rear cover. Vasnetsov's most famous illustrated work, published on May 26 1899 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pushkin's birth. Generally clean and fresh, with tissue guards, text printed in red and black. KILGOUR 897,