Valse des Fleurs: A Day in St Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868 (Henry Moore and Reynolds Stone)

Hardback. Quarter blue cloth in original slipcase.  Limited to 400 copies, this one being unnumbered.   Printed on Merkall mould-made paper, with two wood-engraved devices in wood by Reynolds Stone and colour pictorial endpapers and slip-case sides designed by Henry Moore.  Valse des Fleurs recreates one glittering winter’s day in St Petersburg in its heyday. The Tsar is giving a ball, and in the run up we are given a glimpse of a lost generation of courtiers, servants, guards, officials and dignitaries later condemned to oblivion by the Russian Revolution.  Condition: very good.