The Life of Benvenuto Cellini (1906)
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini (1906)
by Himself
Edited and Translated by John Addington Symonds
9 3/8 x 6 3/8. In English. Printed by Brentano's, New York, 1906. FIRST EDITION. Two Volumes. Complete. Beautifully bound by Brentano's in full purplish-wine colored French Levant Crushed Morocco Leather (The Merrymount Press Fine Leather Binding). Five raised spine bands with gilt accents. Elaborate gilt paneling and decorative devices in spine compartments. Gilt lettered direct. Elaborate gilt decorations to front and back boards. Marbleized endpapers with Ex Libris plate on front pastedowns. Bindings are solid. Text is fresh and clean throughout. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of forty original portraits and other views. Trivial wear. Near FINE Condition. (The image of the author’s bust we included on our website is NOT in the book.)
To use the words of Britannica, these autobiographical memoirs are characteristic of the splendidly gifted and barbarically untamable Cellini (1500-71), who began them in Paris in 1558. They constitute a production of the utmost energy, directness, and racy animation, setting forth one of the most singular careers in all annals of fine art. His amours and hatreds, his passions and delights, his love of the sumptuous and exquisite in art, his self-applause and self-assertion, running now and again into extravagances which it is impossible to credit, and difficult to set down as strictly conscious falsehoods, make this one of the most singular and fascinating books in existence.
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