WITH FULL-PAGE WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRITZ EICHENBERG
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Two volumes. Quarto, original red and brown cloth; housed in original slipcase.
Signed/limited edition, number 920 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator Fritz Eichenberg with numerous full-page woodcut plates by him.
Of Crime and Punishment, first published in 1866, a contemporary reviewer said, "The novel's purpose was to show how theory battles against life in the soul of man, but life wins." The text is from Constance Garnett, famed translator of 19th-century Russian literature.
Expert restoration to slipcase. A fine copy.