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CELLINI, BENVENUTO - The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself (Everyman's Library Biography Series, el #51)

Title: The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself (Everyman's Library Biography Series, el #51)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1960. Hardcover. A 1960 reprint of the 1907 issuance. The 16th century Florentine artist, sculptor and author's tempestuous life is so energetically told in this autobiography that it has become a classic. Offered in an Everyman's Library edition, translated from the Italian by Anne Macdonell and with an introduction by William Gaunt. Everyman's Library #51, an entry in their Biography series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine; orange topstain. In lime green dust jacket with intricate Biro drawing to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy: bright, tightly-bound and clean, though with charming Charing Cross bookseller label to front paste-down. Unclipped, unpriced jacket with rubbing and chafing to extremities but remaining intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector. ; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xi, 368 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

Keywords: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Everyman's Library Editions

Price: US$ 19.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88935