[Fine Binding | Guild of Handicraft] The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture E-List 30 the leaves and vines in

the leaves and vines in inlaid green and brown

74: mezzotint of John Coke (Secretary of State to Charles I) by George White

Book is faded at edges and browned on endpapers

connected with curving gouges

[Fine Binding | Guild of Handicraft] The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture E-List 30 the leaves and vines inCellini, 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