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Summary: Great book, poor execution...
Review: Among my treasured childhood books are N.C. Wyeth illustrated '"Treasure Island," and "Robin Hood" illustrated by Godwin. Scribners did most of these in hardcover, with color plates.The book here is pretty, the stories great, and I bought it because I love the Bilibin illustrations - but they are not printed on separate plates, and if you have seen them reproduced elsewhere, these appear dim and dingy. The publisher could have done better.
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Summary: Bad reproductions!
Review: Luxurious? I don't think so! This book is far too small to do justice to Ivan Bilibin's wonderful illustrations, which I could have accepted if their reproduction quality wasn't so poor! Most have white flecks through them, and some are even fuzzy and off-register. Ivan Bilibin's beautiful colors have also died on this paper stock, with a considerable loss of detail - don't be fooled by the picture sample here! This is a very disappointing and unworthy production.
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Summary: A Lovely Book
Review: Very nice gift book,I ordered this book after coming back from Russia as a present for my nieces and nephews to give them a taste of the wonder of this wild country...and thoroughly enjoyed it myelf. I disagree with a previous reviewer over the illustrations: the pictures by Bilibin are great.. they're not dingy: just turn of the century Russian in a beautiful style-moderne style that was all the rage in St Petersburg.
Russian Folktales typically have charming rhymed couplets sprinkled throughout the stories and unfortunately, in this translation, these have been flattened to strict prose, but the stories are still well told.
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