1900 Fine Bayntun-Riviere Binding - RESURRECTION by Count Leo Tolstoy. Illustrated by Pasternak.

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Author: Leo Tolstoy. With thirty-three illustrations by Pasternak. Translation by Louise Maude.
Title: RESURRECTION. A Novel.
Publisher: London, Francis Riddell Henderson, 1900. Second edition (stated) published the same year as the first English Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages: viii-565 pages.
Binding: Attractive and near fine binding, finely and beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red cherry morocco leather, the spine beautifully lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt borders on boards, inner gilt dentelles and hand-marbled endpapers (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt. An exquisite Bayntun-Riviere binding!
Content: Very good content (bright and tight, some light foxing mainly to the preliminaries and title pages - as shown ). 
Illustrations: Complete with the nice frontispiece and the 33 black & white beautiful plates by Pasternak.

The book: Exquisite and attractive edition of the last major novel published during Tolstoy's lifetime, Resurrection is a fervent exposition of the injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of the institutionalized church. The novel was an unfinished draft which Tolstoy (age 71) began 10 years earlier as the "Konevskaya story". In August 1898 he urgently decided to finish, copyright, and sell it to aid the emigration of the most persecuted third of the pacifist Spiritual Christian Dukhobortsy from Russia to Canada. He completed it in December 1899 and the eagerly awaited full-length novel (as opposed to the many novellas Tolstoy had recently published) outsold both Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

The author: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received multiple nominations for Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906, and nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1910, and his miss of the prize is a major Nobel prize controversy.

The binder: George Bayntun was born in 1873 in Bath, England. After an apprenticeship, he began his own bookbinding business in Bath in 1894, binding books by hand with great craftsmanship. Although many binders were using machines in their process, Bayntun refused to use modern techniques.