!!! SPINE DAMAGED !!! Belinsky, V.G. Collected Works / edited by N.D. Noskov. With a biography of the writer, portraits, drawings relating to his life, and 25 individual portraits of writers. St. Petersburg; Moscow: M.O. Wolf Publishing House, [1911]. 1 p. frontispiece (portrait), [4], II, III-XXXII, 1766, 10th column, 24 p. portra. 27.2 x 20 cm. In a luxurious publisher's calico binding with gold stamping and relief embossing over the entire surface of the binding. Triple marbled edge. The block is clean. The edition is in excellent condition. This book includes the great critic's works that most vividly define his literary and social views, all his articles devoted to the evaluation of writers, as well as articles on art and literature, which never lose their burning interest. Numerous portraits of Belinsky himself, his family, literary friends, and enemies are included in the biography. Appended on separate pages are portraits of literary figures, assessed or reassessed by Belinsky, representing a portrait gallery of Russian literary figures, from its early days to the writers of the Gogol school. Their names are inextricably linked with Belinsky's name and work.