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The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture: PB 26-2005

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture
Translated as: "A glossary of Italian technical terms for the use of students": p. 147-164.

Maker(s)

Author: Cellini, Benvenuto
Translator: Ashbee, Charles Robert
Printer: Ashbee, Charles Robert
Publisher: Edward Arnold
Printer: Hodson, Laurence W.
Compositor: Binning, T.
Compositor: Tippett, J.
Pressman: Mowlem, S.
Printer: Essex House Press
Printer: Guild and School of Handicraft

Categories

Description

Xiv, 164, [4] p, [11] leaves of plates : ill ; 31 cm

Place(s) associated

  • London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2005-02) by Ars Artis

Dating

Production date: AD 1898

Note

"... made into English from the Italian of the Marcian Codex by C.R. Ashbee and printed by him at the Guild's press at Essex House, with the assistance of Laurence Hodson ... and likewise of T. Binning & J. Tippett, compositors, and S. Mowlem, pressman ..."-- Colophon. "A glossary of Italian technical terms for the use of students": p. 147-164. Edition limited to 600 copies, of which the Museum has no. 319.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 26-2005
Primary reference Number: 118862
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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