{
  "full": "\n**JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS. THE LIFE OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI. 1928–1970. (ML 49)**  \n\n#### 164a. First printing (1928)  \n\n[within double rules] THE LIFE OF | MICHELANGELO | BUONARROTI |[rule] | BY | JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] |[rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–viii, [*2*], 1–544 [545–550]. [1–17]16 [18]8  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *First Modern Library Edition* | 1928 | [short double rule]; [v] dedication; [vi] blank; vii–viii CONTENTS; [*1*] fly title; [*2*] blank; 1–544 text; [545–548] ML list; [549–550] blank. (*Fall 1928*)  \n\n>*Variant:* Pagination and collation as 164a. Contents (including  *First* statement) as 164a except: [ii] pub. note A6. (*Fall 1928*)  Probably a later printing but priority with 164a not established.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1928*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial without horizontal borders or rules with lettering and inset drawing of Michelangelo’s *Moses* in black on moderate reddish orange (37) paper. Signed: Davidson. (*Spring 1928*) Reprinted spring 1929 on grayish red (19) paper. *Note:* Jacket used on copies sold as part of Three Renaissance Romances gift box, Christmas 1928 and 1929, and possibly as an alternate pictorial jacket on regular ML sales. *The Life of Michelangelo* in the 1928 gift box is bound in green Keratol and in balloon cloth in the 1929 gift box.  \n\n*Jacket C:* Pictorial in strong reddish orange (35) and black on cream paper with inset drawing as jacket B; lettering in black, borders in strong reddish orange. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n>Front flap:
  John Addington Symond’s [*sic*] biography is more than a study of a unique personality; it is an incarnation of the Renaissance and an evaluation of its most titanic symbol. In the ninety years of Michelangelo’s life, three-quarters of a century was consecrated to a burning sense of beauty, which took form in his colossal plastic figures and the impassioned sonnets. The versatile creator of the Sistine chapel, sculptor of the Medicean tombs, the architect and writer completely embodies the Carlyle-Nietzschean conception of “the  hero as artist.” (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nOriginally published in U.S. by Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893, in 2 volumes. ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published October 1928. *WR* 3 November 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1970/71.  \n\nThe *PW* advertisement announcing the publication of *The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti* noted that the ML edition was “1/8 the price of other editions!” (*PW*, 4 August 1928, p. 368).  \n\n*The Life of Michelangelo* ranked in the fourth quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943. It was not among the 100 best-selling titles in the regular ML during the 12-month period November 1951–October 1952.  \n\n#### 164b. Title page reset (c. 1940)  \n\n[torchbearer D5] | [6-line title and statement of responsibility within single rules] *The Life of* | *Michelangelo* | *Buonarroti* | BY | JOHN ADDINGTON | SYMONDS | [below frame] MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK  \n\nPagination and collation as 164a.  \n\nContents as 164a except: [ii] blank; [iv] publication and manufacturing statements within single rules; [545–549] ML list; [550] blank. (*Spring 1941*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in deep orange (51), dark brown (59), dark gray (266) and black on coated white paper depicting a large hand holding a book; title and author in dark gray with “MICHELANGELO” on a diagonal axis overlapping black sleeve and white background, series in deep orange. Signed: E. McKnight Kauffer. Front flap as 164a jacket C with placement of apostrophe corrected. (*Spring 1941*)  \n\n>Front flap revised:
  Even more than a study of one of the most heroic personalities of  history, John Addington Symond’s [*sic*] biography of Michelangelo becomes an evaluation of the Renaissance and its most titanic symbol.  Of the ninety years of Michelangelo’s life, three-quarters of a  century was consecrated to his great works of art. The unexcelled  sculptured figures and the impassioned sonnets suggest two facets of  his complex creative personality. The painter of the Sistine Chapel, the sculptor of the Medicean tombs, the architect and the writer  indicate the versatility of his gifts and the richness of the heritage he has bestowed upon mankind. (*Fall 1960*)  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nSymonds, *Renaissance in Italy*, 2 vols. (1935–1941) G19  \n\n",
  "id": "164",
  "year": "1928",
  "label": "JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS. THE LIFE OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI. 1928–1970. (ML 49)",
  "author": "JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS",
  "title": "THE LIFE OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI.",
  "date": "1928–1970.",
  "something": "ML 49",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "id": "164a",
      "title": "First printing (1928)  ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] THE LIFE OF | MICHELANGELO | BUONARROTI |[rule] | BY | JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] |[rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–viii, [*2*], 1–544 [545–550]. [1–17]16 [18]8  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *First Modern Library Edition* | 1928 | [short double rule]; [v] dedication; [vi] blank; vii–viii CONTENTS; [*1*] fly title; [*2*] blank; 1–544 text; [545–548] ML list; [549–550] blank. (*Fall 1928*)  \n\n>*Variant:* Pagination and collation as 164a. Contents (including  *First* statement) as 164a except: [ii] pub. note A6. (*Fall 1928*)  Probably a later printing but priority with 164a not established.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1928*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial without horizontal borders or rules with lettering and inset drawing of Michelangelo’s *Moses* in black on moderate reddish orange (37) paper. Signed: Davidson. (*Spring 1928*) Reprinted spring 1929 on grayish red (19) paper. *Note:* Jacket used on copies sold as part of Three Renaissance Romances gift box, Christmas 1928 and 1929, and possibly as an alternate pictorial jacket on regular ML sales. *The Life of Michelangelo* in the 1928 gift box is bound in green Keratol and in balloon cloth in the 1929 gift box.  \n\n*Jacket C:* Pictorial in strong reddish orange (35) and black on cream paper with inset drawing as jacket B; lettering in black, borders in strong reddish orange. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n>Front flap:
  John Addington Symond’s [*sic*] biography is more than a study of a unique personality; it is an incarnation of the Renaissance and an evaluation of its most titanic symbol. In the ninety years of Michelangelo’s life, three-quarters of a century was consecrated to a burning sense of beauty, which took form in his colossal plastic figures and the impassioned sonnets. The versatile creator of the Sistine chapel, sculptor of the Medicean tombs, the architect and writer completely embodies the Carlyle-Nietzschean conception of “the  hero as artist.” (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nOriginally published in U.S. by Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893, in 2 volumes. ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published October 1928. *WR* 3 November 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1970/71.  \n\nThe *PW* advertisement announcing the publication of *The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti* noted that the ML edition was “1/8 the price of other editions!” (*PW*, 4 August 1928, p. 368).  \n\n*The Life of Michelangelo* ranked in the fourth quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943. It was not among the 100 best-selling titles in the regular ML during the 12-month period November 1951–October 1952.  \n\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "164b",
      "title": "Title page reset (c. 1940)  ",
      "full": "\n\n[torchbearer D5] | [6-line title and statement of responsibility within single rules] *The Life of* | *Michelangelo* | *Buonarroti* | BY | JOHN ADDINGTON | SYMONDS | [below frame] MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK  \n\nPagination and collation as 164a.  \n\nContents as 164a except: [ii] blank; [iv] publication and manufacturing statements within single rules; [545–549] ML list; [550] blank. (*Spring 1941*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in deep orange (51), dark brown (59), dark gray (266) and black on coated white paper depicting a large hand holding a book; title and author in dark gray with “MICHELANGELO” on a diagonal axis overlapping black sleeve and white background, series in deep orange. Signed: E. McKnight Kauffer. Front flap as 164a jacket C with placement of apostrophe corrected. (*Spring 1941*)  \n\n>Front flap revised:
  Even more than a study of one of the most heroic personalities of  history, John Addington Symond’s [*sic*] biography of Michelangelo becomes an evaluation of the Renaissance and its most titanic symbol.  Of the ninety years of Michelangelo’s life, three-quarters of a  century was consecrated to his great works of art. The unexcelled  sculptured figures and the impassioned sonnets suggest two facets of  his complex creative personality. The painter of the Sistine Chapel, the sculptor of the Medicean tombs, the architect and the writer  indicate the versatility of his gifts and the richness of the heritage he has bestowed upon mankind. (*Fall 1960*)  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nSymonds, *Renaissance in Italy*, 2 vols. (1935–1941) G19  \n\n"
    }
  ],
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}