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  "full": "\n**BENVENUTO CELLINI. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENVENUTO CELLINI. 1927–1970; 1985–1991. (ML 3; 150)** \n\n#### 132a. First printing (1927) \n\n[within double rules] AUTOBIOGRAPHY | OF | BENVENUTO CELLINI | [rule] | TRANSLATED BY | JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK \n\nPp. [*6*], [1–2] 3–485 [486–490]. [1–15]16 [16]8 \n\n[*1*] half title; [*2*] pub. note A4; [*3*] title; [*4*] *First Modern Library Edition* | 1927 | [short double rule]; [*5*] part title: PEDIGREE | OF | THE | CELLINI; [*6*] genealogical table; [1] part title: BOOK FIRST; [2] blank; 3–478 text; [479] part title: NOTES; [480] blank; 481–485 NOTES | ON THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI AFTER THE YEAR 1562; [486] blank; [487–490] ML list. (*Spring 1927*) \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B. \n\n> Text on front:
 Thoroughly characteristic of its splendidly gifted and barbarically untameable author are these autobiographical memoirs—a production of the utmost energy, directness and racy animation, setting forth one of the most singular careers in all the annals of fine art. Cellini’s amours and hatreds, his passions and delights, his love of the sumptuous and the exquisite in art, his self–applause and self-assertion, running now and again into extravagances which it is impossible to credit, make this one of the most singular and fascinating books in existence. (*Spring 1927*) \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial without horizontal borders or rules in black on pale blue (185) paper with inset illustration of a man with sword facing a woman at left. Signed: Davidson. (*Spring 1929*) *Note:* Used on copies sold as part of Three Renaissance Romances gift box, Christmas 1928 and 1929. \n\n*Jacket C:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1929*) \n\n*Jacket D:* Pictorial in moderate blue (182) and black on cream paper with inset illustration as jacket B; borders in moderate blue, lettering in black. (*Fall 1932*) \n\n> Front flap:
 Of all the great personalities of the Renaissance, none more completely embodies the bold and sumptuous period than Benvenuto Cellini. His autobiography, like his work in rare jewels and marble, is a record of grandeur and beauty. It remains today, as it has for almost three centuries, unparalleled in literature as a chronicle of a life consecrated to passion and to pleasure, to vast and delicate creative enterprises and to dangerous escapades. Its vivacity and its untameable defiance give it an unchallenged first rank among all the autobiographies of the world. (*Fall 1934*) \n\n*Jacket E:* Pictorial in dark grayish blue (187), light gray (264), medium gray (265), black and gold on coated white paper with inset black-and-white illustration shaded in light and medium gray of a man and woman embracing with Florentine rooftops in background; title and translator in reverse against dark grayish blue background, decorations in gold. Designed by Paul Galdone, April 1938; unsigned. \n\n> Front flap as 132a jacket D. (*Spring 1939*) \n\nSymonds translation originally published in London, 1888. ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published February 1927. *WR* 12 March 1927. First printing: 8,000 copies. Discontinued 1970; reissued 1985–91. \n\n*The Autobiography of Benvenuto Ceillini* was one of the ten best-selling titles in the ML during the first six months of 1928. It was in the third quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943. During the 12-month period November 1951–October 1952 it ranked toward the top of the second quarter of ML titles in terms of sales. Sales totaled 126,884 copies by spring 1958. \n\n*The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini* was shifted from ML 3 to ML 150 in fall 1943 when the 3-volume Shakespeare was published as ML 1–3. \n\n#### 132b. Title page reset (c. 1940) \n\n[torchbearer E3] | [6-line title and statement of responsibility within single rules] The Autobiography | OF | BENVENUTO | CELLINI | Translated by | JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS | [below frame] THE MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK \n\nPagination and collation as 132a. \n\nContents as 132a except: [*2*] blank; [*4*] publication and manufacturing statements; [486–490] blank. \n\n*Jacket A:* Larger version of 132a jacket E. (*Spring 1942*) \n\n*Jacket B:* Fujita pictorial jacket in vivid reddish orange (34), deep yellowish green (132), medium gray (265), and black on coated white paper with inset oval portrait of Cellini in medium gray, black and white against deep yellowish green panel bordered in vivid reddish orange; lettering in vivid reddish orange and in reverse. \n\n> Front flap slightly revised from 132a jacket D. \n\n#### 132c. Reissue format (1985) \n\nBENVENUTO CELLINI | [2-line title in reverse within single rules in reverse all on black rectangular panel] THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF | BENVENUTO CELLINI | [below panel] TRANSLATED BY JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS | [torchbearer N] | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK \n\nPagination as 132a. Perfect bound. \n\nContents as 132b except: [*1*] woodcut illustration by Stephen Alcorn of; [*4*] MODERN LIBRARY EDITION | November 1985. \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial on kraft paper in strong reddish brown (40) and black with inset woodcut illustration by Stephen Alcorn of Cellini holding a quill pen with sculpture on pedestal in background. Woodcut by Stephen Alcorn. \n\n> Front flap:
 This remarkable biography, written between 1558 and 1562, reads like a picaresque novel. It is, in fact, one of the most important documents of the 16th century. Benvenuto Cellini, an audaciously self-serving Florentine goldsmith, tells of his escapades with the frankness and egoism characteristic of the Renaissance man, describing a life of unequaled grandeur, passion and adventure. It remains today one of the world masterpieces of autobiographical writing. \n\nPublished November 1985 at \\$9.95. ISBN 0-394-60528-4. \n\n",
  "id": "132",
  "year": "1927",
  "label": "BENVENUTO CELLINI. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENVENUTO CELLINI. 1927–1970; 1985–1991. (ML 3; 150)",
  "author": "BENVENUTO CELLINI",
  "title": "AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENVENUTO CELLINI.",
  "date": "1927–1970; 1985–1991.",
  "something": "ML 3; 150",
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    {
      "id": "132a",
      "title": "First printing (1927) ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] AUTOBIOGRAPHY | OF | BENVENUTO CELLINI | [rule] | TRANSLATED BY | JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK \n\nPp. [*6*], [1–2] 3–485 [486–490]. [1–15]16 [16]8 \n\n[*1*] half title; [*2*] pub. note A4; [*3*] title; [*4*] *First Modern Library Edition* | 1927 | [short double rule]; [*5*] part title: PEDIGREE | OF | THE | CELLINI; [*6*] genealogical table; [1] part title: BOOK FIRST; [2] blank; 3–478 text; [479] part title: NOTES; [480] blank; 481–485 NOTES | ON THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI AFTER THE YEAR 1562; [486] blank; [487–490] ML list. (*Spring 1927*) \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B. \n\n> Text on front:
 Thoroughly characteristic of its splendidly gifted and barbarically untameable author are these autobiographical memoirs—a production of the utmost energy, directness and racy animation, setting forth one of the most singular careers in all the annals of fine art. Cellini’s amours and hatreds, his passions and delights, his love of the sumptuous and the exquisite in art, his self–applause and self-assertion, running now and again into extravagances which it is impossible to credit, make this one of the most singular and fascinating books in existence. (*Spring 1927*) \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial without horizontal borders or rules in black on pale blue (185) paper with inset illustration of a man with sword facing a woman at left. Signed: Davidson. (*Spring 1929*) *Note:* Used on copies sold as part of Three Renaissance Romances gift box, Christmas 1928 and 1929. \n\n*Jacket C:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1929*) \n\n*Jacket D:* Pictorial in moderate blue (182) and black on cream paper with inset illustration as jacket B; borders in moderate blue, lettering in black. (*Fall 1932*) \n\n> Front flap:
 Of all the great personalities of the Renaissance, none more completely embodies the bold and sumptuous period than Benvenuto Cellini. His autobiography, like his work in rare jewels and marble, is a record of grandeur and beauty. It remains today, as it has for almost three centuries, unparalleled in literature as a chronicle of a life consecrated to passion and to pleasure, to vast and delicate creative enterprises and to dangerous escapades. Its vivacity and its untameable defiance give it an unchallenged first rank among all the autobiographies of the world. (*Fall 1934*) \n\n*Jacket E:* Pictorial in dark grayish blue (187), light gray (264), medium gray (265), black and gold on coated white paper with inset black-and-white illustration shaded in light and medium gray of a man and woman embracing with Florentine rooftops in background; title and translator in reverse against dark grayish blue background, decorations in gold. Designed by Paul Galdone, April 1938; unsigned. \n\n> Front flap as 132a jacket D. (*Spring 1939*) \n\nSymonds translation originally published in London, 1888. ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published February 1927. *WR* 12 March 1927. First printing: 8,000 copies. Discontinued 1970; reissued 1985–91. \n\n*The Autobiography of Benvenuto Ceillini* was one of the ten best-selling titles in the ML during the first six months of 1928. It was in the third quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943. During the 12-month period November 1951–October 1952 it ranked toward the top of the second quarter of ML titles in terms of sales. Sales totaled 126,884 copies by spring 1958. \n\n*The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini* was shifted from ML 3 to ML 150 in fall 1943 when the 3-volume Shakespeare was published as ML 1–3. \n\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "132b",
      "title": "Title page reset (c. 1940) ",
      "full": "\n\n[torchbearer E3] | [6-line title and statement of responsibility within single rules] The Autobiography | OF | BENVENUTO | CELLINI | Translated by | JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS | [below frame] THE MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK \n\nPagination and collation as 132a. \n\nContents as 132a except: [*2*] blank; [*4*] publication and manufacturing statements; [486–490] blank. \n\n*Jacket A:* Larger version of 132a jacket E. (*Spring 1942*) \n\n*Jacket B:* Fujita pictorial jacket in vivid reddish orange (34), deep yellowish green (132), medium gray (265), and black on coated white paper with inset oval portrait of Cellini in medium gray, black and white against deep yellowish green panel bordered in vivid reddish orange; lettering in vivid reddish orange and in reverse. \n\n> Front flap slightly revised from 132a jacket D. \n\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "132c",
      "title": "Reissue format (1985) ",
      "full": "\n\nBENVENUTO CELLINI | [2-line title in reverse within single rules in reverse all on black rectangular panel] THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF | BENVENUTO CELLINI | [below panel] TRANSLATED BY JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS | [torchbearer N] | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK \n\nPagination as 132a. Perfect bound. \n\nContents as 132b except: [*1*] woodcut illustration by Stephen Alcorn of; [*4*] MODERN LIBRARY EDITION | November 1985. \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial on kraft paper in strong reddish brown (40) and black with inset woodcut illustration by Stephen Alcorn of Cellini holding a quill pen with sculpture on pedestal in background. Woodcut by Stephen Alcorn. \n\n> Front flap:
 This remarkable biography, written between 1558 and 1562, reads like a picaresque novel. It is, in fact, one of the most important documents of the 16th century. Benvenuto Cellini, an audaciously self-serving Florentine goldsmith, tells of his escapades with the frankness and egoism characteristic of the Renaissance man, describing a life of unequaled grandeur, passion and adventure. It remains today one of the world masterpieces of autobiographical writing. \n\nPublished November 1985 at \\$9.95. ISBN 0-394-60528-4. \n\n"
    }
  ],
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}