The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself. Edited and Translated by John Addington Symonds with a Biographical Sketch of Cellini by the same hand together with an Introduction to this edition upon Benvenuto Cellini, Artist and Writer, by Royal Cortissoz with Reproductions of Forty Originial Portraits and Veiws, Illustrating the Life.
New York: Brentano's. Printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press. Boston. 1906. Hardcover. 8vo. 23.5cm, in 2 volumes, xxix,[1],359,1] & vii,[1],386,[1]pp., plus 40 plates, titles pages by T.M. Cleland, index, Signed Binding: "Brentano's". Bound in full crimson morocco, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt ruled borders and corner decorations in the panels and gilt titles, six gilt ruled borders decorations on the borders with elaborate corner decorations, gilt ruled border decorated dentelles, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., a fine set in attractive fine signed bindings (Lho). ~ There were three bindings issued, regular cloth, half calf and rarely, the present binding in full morocco; in brown or crimson. ~ Cellini, Benvenuto (1500 1571). Florentine sculptor, famous for his work as a goldsmith and for his autobiography. Written between 1558 and 1562 and first published in 1730, it is one of the most celebrated autobiographies in history. It gives and intimate and lively picture of the life of the times and of the author's vivid and arrogant personality. Goethe was so fascinated by it that he translated it into German. Cellini was a pupil of Michelangelo and for a time was attached to the court of Francis I of France, for whom he made his best known piece, a gold salt cellar. Item #33768
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