[Fine Binding | Guild of Handicraft] The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture E-List 31 and the gilt cross decoration

and the gilt cross decoration on the front cover

Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour

Including a ten-panel folding territorial map

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

[Fine Binding | Guild of Handicraft] The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture E-List 31 and the gilt cross decorationCellini, 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