The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself (Two Volumes)
by Benvenuto Cellini; John Addington Symonds [trans.]; Royal Courtissoz [intro.]
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Brentano's, 1906. Very Good. New York: Brentano's, 1906. Two volumes. Octavo; Vol. I xxx + 360pp.; Vol II 387pp including index. Both volumes half-bound in brown leather with gilt seams front and back; spines with (pseudo) raised bands and gilt stamping. J.W. Meyer & Co. binding signature on verso of front free endpaper top edge. Gilt top edge of text block; deckle-cut fore-edge. Some unopened index pages. "Forty Original Portraits and Views Illustrating His Life" in sepia with pasted-in protective tissues. Faux-marbled endpapers.
Solid joints and hinges. Slightly rubbed leather edges. Two gift inscriptions in ink on flyleaf, the first from 1918, the second (a regift from grandfather to granddaughter) in 1962.
Cellini's racily exaggerated memoirs in John Addington Symond's famous translation (at once floridly cosmopolitan and archly euphemized) with Symond's explanatory notes.
Solid joints and hinges. Slightly rubbed leather edges. Two gift inscriptions in ink on flyleaf, the first from 1918, the second (a regift from grandfather to granddaughter) in 1962.
Cellini's racily exaggerated memoirs in John Addington Symond's famous translation (at once floridly cosmopolitan and archly euphemized) with Symond's explanatory notes.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5477
- Title
- The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself (Two Volumes)
- Author
- Benvenuto Cellini; John Addington Symonds [trans.]; Royal Courtissoz [intro.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Brentano's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1906
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...