Rustaveli, Shota. The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Vepkhistkaosani). Miniature edition. Illustrated by Sergo Kobuladze, 1966. In Georgian.

რუსთაველი, შოთა. ვეფხისტყაოსანი. მინიატურული გამოცემა. ტექსტი მოამზადეს გიორგი წერეთელმა, სარგის ცაიშვილმა და გურამ კარტოზიამ. რედაქტორები: ირაკლი აბაშიძე, გიორგი წერეთელი. სერგო ქობულაძის ილუსტრაციები (1937 წლის გამოცემიდან). მხატვრული გაფორმება: ელგუჯა ბერძენიშვილი, ზურაბ კაპანაძე.
თბილისი: განათლება, 1966. 368 გვ. : ილ. ; 9×7 სმ. ტირაჟი 60 000 ც. (1-20 000).
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Rustaveli, Shota. The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Vepkhistkaosani). Miniature edition. Text prepared by Giorgi Tsereteli, Sargis Tsaishvili and Guram Kartozia. Edited by Irakli Abashidze and Giorgi Tsereteli. Illustrations by Sergo Kobuladze (from the 1937 edition). Design by Elguja Berdzenishvili and Zurab Kapanadze.
Tbilisi: Ganatleba, 1966. 368 pp., illustrated, 9×7 cm. Print run 60,000 copies (1-20,000).
Publisher's black cloth hardcover with gilt ornament, ribbon marker, publisher's illustrated dust jacket and publisher's slipcase.
Condition: cover and text block very good, slight rubbing on the rear spine edge, ribbon end frayed. Dust jacket good, chipped edges, creases and tears near the spine fold. Slipcase good, torn upper corner.

Rustaveli's twelfth-century romance in verse, The Knight in the Panther's Skin, was the central text of Soviet Georgian publishing, and this miniature is a pocket-sized product of the jubilee year 1966, issued for the 800th anniversary of the poet's birth. The text follows the jubilee text approved by the Jubilee Committee and was revised by Giorgi Tsereteli, Sargis Tsaishvili and Guram Kartozia, with Irakli Abashidze and Tsereteli as editors. The line drawings set into the text are by Sergo Kobuladze, reprinted from the 1937 edition, and the colophon states that the ornamental designs were drawn from ancient Georgian monuments of art. General design is credited to Elguja Berdzenishvili and Zurab Kapanadze. The volume is complete as issued: black cloth stamped in gilt, a ribbon marker, an illustrated jacket in olive and gold with mounted horsemen, and a matching slipcase with a kneeling figure and the number 800. The endpapers carry a printed hunting scene, and the book includes full-page plates and a frontispiece portrait. The colophon gives a print run of 60,000, with this batch numbered 1-20,000, so the edition is not scarce, but copies that still retain both the jacket and the slipcase are much harder to find than the bare book.