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REVIEWSNAĆALO KNIGOPEĆATANIJA ν MosKVE i NA UKRAINE.ŻIZN' IDEJATEL'NOST' PERVOPECATNIKA IVANA FEDOROVA: UKAZATEL'LITERATURY, 1574-1974. [By E. L. Nemirovskij.] Moscow: [Gosudarstvennajaordena Lenina Biblioteka SSSR im. V. I.Lenina. Otdel redkix knig], 1975. 197 pp. 1,100 copies. 40kopecks, mimeograph.Evgenij L'vovich Nemirovskij is perhaps the most prolific Soviet Russianstudent of Slavic books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His bibliographicalwork under review here attempts to update and supplement the devisu bibliography of 523 items of Russian and foreign Fedoroviana (publishedbetween 1632 and 1932) compiled by A. P. Lebedjanskaja in 1934. In additionto supplementing Lebedjanskaja's coverage by searching through suchmaterials as library reports, Nemirovskij claims to have examined items thatLebedjanskaja did not.Like the earlier compilation, Nemirovskij's is arranged chronologically andalphabetically within each year, with works in Cyrillic script listed first,followed by works published in languages of the peoples of the Soviet Unionand in Latin. His bibliography thus contains 1,754 items published between1574 and 1974. The majority, however— 1,165, to be exact — were publishedafter the Revolution.Recent Soviet bibliographies of this kind are very difficult to evaluate. Onthe one hand, Nemirovskij has undoubtedly performed a service in collatingand integrating the references found in the works by Kameneva (1959),Maxnovec (1960), and Droblenkova (1961), as well as those which appeared inKniga (1961—). Yet the result of his efforts is a somewhat haphazard andoccasionally unpalatable mixture of "cabbage and peas."First, there are the simple errors that litter the compilation (e.g., in items50, 317, 737, 953, 1487). Second, and more detrimental, is the unfortunatechoice of material. Important works on Fedorov (item 1639) are foundalongside peripheral items (1638). Basic reference works are not differentiatedfrom sources and secondary studies. A surprising omission is the special issueof Recenzija (vol. 5, no. 1) devoted to the quatercentenary of book printing inthe Ukraine, which contained an annotated bibliography of items dealing withthe old Ukrainian book.