The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. SYMONDS (John Addington).

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. With etched portrait and fifty reproductions of the works of the master.

Volume one with frontispiece and 32 full page plates including one fold out plate. Volume two with frontispiece and 17 full page plates and six tables of family trees, three of which fold out.

Two volumes. First edition. 8vo. [235 x 180 x 90 mm]. xxxii, 469, viii, 443 pp. Original publisher's quarter blue cloth over green cloth boards, the front boards with a coat of arms blocked in gilt, the spines lettered in gilt, decorative gilt endpapers, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. (Boards lightly soiled, spines a touch rubbed with a small tear at the foot of the spine to volume two).

London: John C. Nimmo, 1893

Text blocks clean, a very good copy. Armorial bookplate of John H. Dwight to the front paste down.

An extensively illustrated bibliography of Michelangelo with much of the information being drawn from the large collection of manuscripts preserved in the Casa Buonarroti in Florence.

Stock no. ebc9210