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Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: A Florentine Artist; Written by Himself (Everyman's Library #51)
by CELLINI, Benvenuto
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- Hardcover
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- Good with no dust jacket
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London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Good with no dust jacket. [c.1906]. First Edition. Hardcover. An undated, probable first Everyman's Library edition (1906), so indicated by lack of subsequent printings on the copyright page. Benvenuto Cellini was a 16th century Florentine artist, sculptor and goldsmith. The story of his life is so energetically told in this autobiography that it has become a treasured classic. Translated from the Italian by Thomas Roscoe. Entry 51 in Everyman's Library "Biography" series, edited by Ernest Rhys, who has supplied a prefatory note. --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full ribbed grey cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with repaired tears to cloth at head of spine, repaired rear hinge and dulling to spine gilding, otherwise a stable, sturdy copy. ; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); 528 pages .
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- Title
- Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: A Florentine Artist; Written by Himself (Everyman's Library #51)
- Author
- CELLINI, Benvenuto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- [c.1906]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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