Roustaveli, Chota. Le Preux a la peau de tigre (Vepkhistqaosani / Vityaz' v tigrovoy shkure). French text by Elisabeth Orbeliani and Solomon Iordanichvili, 1977. In French.

Roustaveli, Chota. Le Preux a la peau de tigre / texte francais d'Elisabeth Orbeliani et de Solomon Iordanichvili ; redacteurs Gaston Bouatchidze et Guivi Meladze ; preface de Serge Serebriakov ; illustrations de Zourab Kapanadze.
Tbilissi : Editions Sabtchota Sakartvelo, 1977.
219 pages, avec des illustrations ; 26 cm.
Reliure d'editeur en pleine toile, avec jaquette d'origine. Tirage de 7 000 exemplaires.
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Roustaveli, Chota. Le Preux a la peau de tigre / French text by Elisabeth Orbeliani and Solomon Iordanichvili ; editors Gaston Bouatchidze and Guivi Meladze ; preface by Serge Serebriakov ; illustrated by Zourab Kapanadze.
Tbilisi : Sabtchota Sakartvelo Publishing House, 1977.
219 pp., with illustrations ; 26 cm.
Publisher's full cloth binding, with original dust jacket. Print run of 7,000 copies.
Dust jacket good: minor wear along edges and spine ends, small marginal tears, gilt background remains bright. Binding very good: brown cloth clean, silver embossed panther motif on front board sharp. Text block very good: tight, complete, and clean throughout.

A significant mid-Soviet scholarly and artistic French edition of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" (Le Preux a la peau de tigre), the celebrated twelfth-century Georgian national epic by Shota Rustaveli. This volume represents a major twentieth-century effort to render the psychological depth and complex metaphorical structure of the epic accessible to a Francophone audience. The text preserves the classic translation foundations laid by Elisabeth Orbeliani (1871-1942) and the prominent Soviet Kartvelian philologist Solomon Iordanichvili (1894-1952), meticulously revised and prepared for publication by the noted translators and literary scholars Gaston Bouatchidze and Guivi Meladze. Visually striking, the volume features modern graphic designs and illustrations by Zourab Kapanadze, housed under a reflective gold-laminated dust jacket and a crisp silver-stamped hardcover.