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By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Modern Library: 1927
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2260192
Condition: Very Good
First thus (Toledano 3.2). Flexible boards. Edges lightly rubbed, front hinge starting. 1927 Hard Cover. 485 pp. The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58 and ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around the year 1563 when Cellini was approximately 63 years old. The memoirs give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct, and racy style. They show a great self-regard and self-assertion, sometimes running into extravagances which are impossible to credit. ... View more info
By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington; Cortissoz, Royal
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Tudor Publishing Company: 1906
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2062149
Condition: Very Good
1934 12th printing. Front hinge of first volume just starting, small internal tear to vol. 1 backstrip. 1906 Hard Cover. xxix, [1], 359, [1]; vii, [1], 386, [1] pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, top edge gilt. Reproductions of forty original portraits and views. The classic autobiography by the Italian Renaissance goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier, and musician, still considered the most important memoir of the era. View more info
By: Morley, John; Symonds, John Addington
Price: $7.00
Publisher: A. L. Fowle: 1942
Seller ID: 2297137
Condition: Good
No jacket. No publisher date (ink note dated 1942). Stain on spine, ink note on half-title page verso and frontispiece recto, clipping pasted to rear paste-down endpaper. viii, 189 pp. A biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. CONTENTS: Birth and Childhood; Eton and Oxford; Life in London, and First Marriage; Second Residence in London, and Separation from Harriet; Life at Marlow, and Journey to Italy; Residence at Pisa; Last Days; Epilogue. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Modern Library / Random House:
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2262324
Condition: Good
Rear jacket flap stained, carries over lightly to boards, jacket price clipped, jacket edges rubbed. We have more books available by this author!. viii, [2], 344, [6] pp. Even more than a study of one of the most heroic personalities of history, John Addington Symonds' biography of Michelangelo becomes an evaluation of the Renaissance and its most titanic symbol. Of the ninety years of Michelangelo's life, three quarters of a century was consecrated to his great works of art. The unexcelled sculpture figures and the impassioned sonnets suggest two facets of his complex creative personality. Th... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company: 1883
Seller ID: 2198743
Condition: Very Good
Author's edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, ink name and date on front flyleaf. 1883 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 318 pp. 8vo. An Italian travelogue by the English poet and cultural critic specializing in the Renaissance, who was friends with Horatio F. Brown, also an Italian historical scholar. Brown later wrote a biography of Symonds based on an autobiography and other materials given to him upon Symonds's death. This volume is one of seven that comprise a set entitled Renaissance in Italy. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Smith, Elder, & Co.: 1879
Seller ID: 2198744
Condition: Good
Front hinge starting, owner bookplate on front endpaper, front and end matter and page ridges lightly foxed. 1879 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. [iv], 430, [2] pp. 8vo. An Italian travelogue by the English poet and cultural critic specializing in the Renaissance, who was friends with Horatio F. Brown, also an Italian historical scholar. Brown later wrote a biography of Symonds based on an autobiography and other materials given to him upon Symonds's death. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Smith, Elder, & Co.: 1874
Seller ID: 2198745
Condition: Very Good
Binding slightly shaken, front and end matter faintly foxed, ink gift note on dedication page, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1874 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. [iv], 339, [4] pp. 8vo. An Italian and Greek travelogue by the English poet and cultural critic specializing in the Renaissance, who was friends with Horatio F. Brown, also an Italian historical scholar. Brown later wrote a biography of Symonds based on an autobiography and other materials given to him upon Symonds's death. View more info