Gabashvili, Besarion "Besiki". Complete Collection of Works: Text, Study, Notes, Dictionary (Tkhzulebata Sruli Krebuli). 1932. In Georgian.

გაბაშვილი, ბესარიონ "ბესიკი" (1750-1791). თხზულებათა სრული კრებული : ტექსტი, გამოკვლევა, შენიშვნები, ლექსიკონი / წინასიტყვაობა, რედაქცია ალ. ბარამიძისა და ვ. თოფურიასი. მე-3 გამოცემა.
სერია: ქართული კლასიკური მწერლობა. ტფილისი : ფედერაცია, 1932. 076, 235 გვერდი : სურათებით ; 22 სანტიმეტრი.
ორფრადი ყდა: ქაღალდის გარეკანი, ქსოვილის ზურგი ოქროსფერი ასოებით. ტირაჟი 6 000 ც.
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Gabashvili, Besarion "Besiki" (1750-1791). Complete Collection of Works: Text, Study, Notes, Dictionary / preface, edited by Al. Baramidze and V. Topuria. Third edition.
Series: Georgian Classical Literature. Tbilisi: "Federatsia," 1932. 076, 235 pp., illustrated ; 22 cm.
Half-binding: paper-covered boards, cloth spine gilt-lettered. Print run of 6,000 copies.
Binding good: evenly worn and spotted; spine firm. Text block good: clean.

Besarion Gabashvili, known by his pen name Besiki (1750-1791), is generally regarded as the last major figure of Old Georgian literature and the outstanding poet of the Rococo current at the royal court of Kartli-Kakheti. Son of Zakaria Gabashvili, tutor to King Teimuraz II, Besiki was raised and educated within the royal court and became a favorite of King Erekle II's circle, celebrated for his refined, sensuous love lyrics — most famously those addressed to Queen Anna, consort of the Imeretian throne, portrayed here in an inserted illustrated plate — as well as panegyric odes and virtuosic experiments in verse form (acrostics, alphabetic poems). He later pursued a diplomatic career on behalf of the Georgian crown and died in Iași, in the Principality of Moldavia, while on a mission connected with the Russo-Turkish war. This edition represents the standard twentieth-century critical text of Besiki's poetry, established by the literary historian Alexander Baramidze together with the linguist Varlam Topuria.