Author: CELLINI, BENVENUTO
Title: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Modern Library #150. 3. )
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1955]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of the energetically-told autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini, the 16th century Florentine artist, sculptor and author. Per the jacket flap, this work ".chronicle[s] .a life consecrated to passion, and to pleasure.and to dangerous escapades." Translated from the Italian by John Addington Symonds. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on burgundy spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 374 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1955 (no publication date appears in book). ML #150.3. --- A well-preserved, tightly-bound copy lacking markings. Price-clipped dust jacket with minor chafing to extremities, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); [6], 485 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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