[Fine Binding | Guild of Handicraft] The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture E-List 31 Translated from the German by

Translated from the German by Gerhard F

Bound in full plum crushed morocco by Rose Lazier (signed on the rear doublure)

The text follows Landor’s final corrections as printed in the 1876 collected edition

Including a ten-panel folding territorial map

and the gilt cross decoration on the front cover

[Fine Binding | Guild of Handicraft] The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture E-List 31 Translated from the German byCellini, Benvenuto. The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture. London: Essex House Press, 1898. Limited edition of 600 copies, of which this is #334. 11 plates with tissue guards plus 7 diagrams in the text and a press device on the colophon. The first book sold by C. R. Ashbee's Essex House Press, translated from the original Italian by Ashbee. Bound in full brown pigskin by the Guild of Handicraft (stamp signed on rear turn in), with a tri leaf