Anna Karénina. Translated by Nathan Haskell Doyle. With Six Illustrations by Paul Frenzeny. London; Walter Scott, (1890). First Edition Thus. Pp 769. Bound in half calf over marbled boards, spine compartments lettered in gilt with lozenge motifs. A nice bright copy, handsomely bound.

The first Walter Scott illustrated edition of Anna Karenina, published as part of their “Uniform Edition” series.

Nathan Haskell Doyle (1852–1935) was a prolific American translator and editor who produced the first properly complete English edition of Tolstoy’s works. His Anna Karenina translation was originally published in New York by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1886, with the Walter Scott edition following a few years later as the first English issue.

Paul Frenzeny (1840–1902) was a French-born American artist By the 1890s he had settled in London, where he illustrated several literary classics, including Kipling’s Jungle Book.