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 ¼ x 6 ¼. In English. Printed by Brentano's, New York, 1906. FIRST EDITION. Two Volumes. Complete. Half lather over cloth boards. Bindings are solid. Five raised spine bands with gilt accents. Gilt lettered direct. Minor wear to extremities, some very light staining to boards. Decorative paste downs and endpapers with Ex Libris plate on front and rear paste downs. Text is free from foxing, remarkably fresh and clean throughout. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of forty original portraits and other views. A very good set. (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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Inventory Number: 27042
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