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CELLINI, BENVENUTO. The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture. Photographic plates and diagrams. 4to, original green cloth with paper spine label; unopened. one of 600 numbered copies printed by C. R. Ashbee at the Essex House Press. (London, 1898)
"The major portion of this book concerns Cellini's famous treatise on the arts he employed in creating his fabulous jewels and jeweled & enameled objects of precious metal work. There are chapters on the jewelry, notes on relative value of gems, techniques in setting gems in mountings to enhance color and brilliance, and the use of metal foil backings, and some miscellaneous remarks on gems of that time"--Sinkankas 1215.
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