THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI WRITTEN BY HIMSELF [A Florentine Artist. Containing A Variety of Curious and Interesting Particulars, relative to Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; and The History of his Own Time.] 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 Original Portraits and views Illustrating the Life

2 volumes. First of the Edition issued by Brentano's. Illustrated throughout 40 full-page portraits, paintings and scenes, all with the original protective tissues intact. Tall 8vo, bound in the publisher's original olive green cloth, the upper covers with interlocking gilt work within a large central panel gilt, the spine panels lettered in gilt, opening leaf to the Preface, Introduction and each Book of the Life printed in red and black. [xxx], [360]; [viii], [387] pp. A pleasing and handsome set, well preserved and with little evidence of age or use, the plates and tissue guards all in excellent condition, the bindings tight and firm, lightly mellowed within, as is usual.

Edizione: the well regarded brentano's edition of this timeless classic. replete with fine prefatory and introductory writings on cellini by royal cortossoz and john addington symonds and concluding notes on the pedigree of cellini, a fine body of notes and an important index.<br> 'on many accounts [this is] one of the most interesting and valuable autobiographies ever written. the author was contemporaneous with raphael and michael angelo, and was the most skillful worker in metals in that age of artists.the variety of its incidents, the minuteness of its descriptions, the pictures of the people, and of the manners of the time, and, above all, the view it affords of the life of one of the most powerful characters of the age, give it at once the charm of romance and the value of a record of contemporaneous events' (adams, manual of historical literature, p. 246).