[Fine Binding | Guild of Handicraft] The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture E-List 31 Full dark green morocco gilt

Full dark green morocco gilt

"Niger Morocco Guest Book"

A hint of fading to spine

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

A very interesting example of Arts & Crafts printing

[Fine Binding | Guild of Handicraft] The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture E-List 31 Full dark green morocco giltCellini, 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