Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine artist; written by himself. Containing a variety of information respecting the arts, and the history of the sixteenth century. ... With the notes and observations of G.P. Carpani, now first translated by Thomas Roscoe, esq.
Benvenuto Cellini (Florence 1500 - Florence 1571)
Category
Books
Date
1823
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3193075
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. (xvi, 428 ; xi, [1], 428 p.) : port. ; 8vo. Former sheldmark: C-4 [pencil, numbered below]: 856. Imperfect: vol. 2 only. Provenance: pictorial bookplate: “Vita. A good book is the best of friends the same today and forever. 1908 Knole” [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Binding: nineteenth-century half black morocco, with marbled paper on boards; gold tooled spine.
Makers and roles
Benvenuto Cellini (Florence 1500 - Florence 1571) Giovanni Palamede Carpani (b.1775) Thomas Roscoe (1791-1871)