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[BINDING]. SYMONDS, John Addington (1840?1893), translator....

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[BINDING]. SYMONDS, John Addington (1840?1893), translator. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. 2 volumes in 4, square 8vo. 4 etchings including frontispiece, several decorative devices. (Frontispiece dampstained). Three?quarter brown levant gilt, 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, raised bands with gilt dimples, elaborate gilt fleuron and sprig tooling in compartments, top edges gilt (faint dampstain to upper cover of Volume I, also slightly affecting top edge). Provenance: shelf label in each volume. LIMITED EDITION, one of 750 copies. AN ATTRACTIVE SET.