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252 Reviews496 were published in Kiev, 29 in Ostrih, 4 in Lviv, and 1 in Chernihiv, whileten were anonymous and four in manuscript. Despite the sizeable number ofthese volumes, Sapunov states that they constituted only about a third of allthe titles published in the Ukraine during this period. The books moved toMoscow quickly, usually spreading to the most far-reaching parts of thetsardom within two to three years after publication. The following types ofbooks were most heavily represented: the Psalter (111 volumes), Kanonik(91), Zertsalo (13), Polustav (12), and the Bible (19). Sapunov concludes thatthe opisi should be studied carefully, because they register works that mayhave been lost and that therefore are unknown in Slavic descriptive bibliography.The second essay, by the late Sokrat Aleksandrovich Klepikov, treats thelittle studied theme of full-skin Ukrainian bindings during the period 1500-1750. He concludes that Ukrainian bookbinders, unlike those in Muscovy,preferred the use of subject (person or teratological) bindings. The third essay,by Olena Opanovych, comes as a pleasant surprise, since ten years havepassed since her last publication in the Ukraine. Her lengthy essay begins witha short history of ownership and dedicatory inscriptions and of the six elementsnormally comprising such inscriptions. She then attempts to survey the diverseways in which this information can be used for Ukrainian cultural, economic,and social history. In the concluding portion, Opanovych deals with scribes(pp. 37 ff.), the making of manuscript bindings (p. 43 ff.), and the mostimportant manuscript monument of this period, the Peresopnytsia Gospel.The fourth essay in the collection, written by I. F. Martynov on the basis ofthe materials collected by M. I. Martyno va (his late mother), an "engineer byprofession and a student of the book by avocation," is a straightforwardaccount of the career of E. K. Vil'kovskii, son of a Ukrainian squire. In 1775,after serving in various official capacities, Vil'kovskii became assistant managerof the bookstore of the Academy of Sciences under S. G. Domashnev(1743-90). After Domashnev's withdrawal in 1781, the store continued tooperate under Vil'kovskii's management until 1784. On the encouragement ofhis fellow Ukrainian, V. G. Ruban, Vil'kovskii began in 1777 to publish someof his own titles and, after severing relations with the academy, established hisown publishing house together with his son-in-law, Galchenkov. One of thestaples of Vil'kovskii's enterprise was his service as the official printer for theCommission for the Establishment of Popular Schools. Vil'kovskii continuedto be active in publishing until 1800, when he disappears from the extantsources.The essay by I. E. Barenbaum is also a cameo of a solitary printer. Between1863 and 1865 the printing house in question was owned jointly by Rogal'skiiand F. S. Sushchinskii (1827-?), and after 1865 by Sushchinskii himself. In1869 he opened a library, followed in 1876 by a bookstore. His activity as aprinter continued to 1890. The physical plant used by Sushchinskii had once