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The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture.

Accession number
PML 151644
Creator
Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571.
Published
[London : E. Arnold, 1898]
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
"A glossary of Italian technical terms for the use of students": p. 147-164.
Colophon: Here end The treaties of Benevenuto Cellini on metal work and sculpture, made into English from the Italian of the Marcian codex by C. R. Ashbee, and printed by him at the Guild's press at Essex House, with the assistance of Lawrence Hodson who sought to keep living the traditions of good printing refounded by William Morris, the master craftsman, and likewise of T. Binning & J. Tippett, compostitiors, and S. Mowlem, pressman, who came to Essex House form the Kelmscott press to that end. Begun April, 1898; finished October, 1898.
Number 587 of 600 copies.
Description
xiv, 164 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Douglas Cockerell binding-- 1900, full niger binding. In leather edged slip case with Cockerell paper by J.P.W.
Classification
Department