COLONNA, FRANCESCO]. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Venice: Aldus Manutius for Leonardus Crassus, December 1499. Chancery folio, 289 x 204mm. (11 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.). 234 leaves, with signatures. Types: 115R (text), 7:114Gk (a few words), 10:82R (title, errata, text in quires q, r, and elsewhere), 9:84Gk (errata), square Hebrew type (two lines each on b8r and b8v). Two letters (AM) stamped in by hand to correct the second title on a1r. 39 lines. 172 woodcuts, including 11 full-page illustrations, 39 woodcut initials (printed from 17 blocks), forming an acrostic including the dedicatee and probable author's name, Franciscus Columna. Black morocco, covers gilt-tooled in a Grolieresque pattern of interlacing strapwork and leafy vines with azuré infill, within double gilt fillet border, spine in six compartments, four similarly gilt, two gilt-lettered, g.e., double vellum endleaves, by Bedford; joints and extremities rubbed, very small worm track from fol. E1 to F4 affecting not more than 4 letters in each leaf, fols. b8, i1 and r1 each with a tiny perforation or filled wormhole catching one or two letters, discreet marginal repairs to four leaves, a very few small stains, a few letters inked over (see Provenance below) ; the Priapus cut on m6 is intact. HC 5501*; Pr 5574*; GW 7223; BMC V, 561; Renouard Alde 21.5; Essling 1198; Sander 2056; Schäfer/von Arnim 107; Goff C-767. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ILLUSTRATED PRINTED BOOK OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE, a treatise on art and aesthetics in the form of an allegorical love story. The woodcuts, a few of which are signed with the initial b , have been tentatively attributed to the Paduan miniaturist Benedetto Bordone, but like the many rival attributions this one remains contestable. Traditionally ascribed to Colonna, the text is also still open to question; the most recent attribution of the work to the Servite friar Eliseo da Treviso (cf. Piero Scapecchi, Accademie e biblioteche d'Italia , 1983, p. 286 sqq. and 1985, p. 68 sqq.) has been generally rejected for insufficient evidence. Provenance : Errata leaf with old ink underlinings; scattered neat eighteenth or nineteenth-century interlinear corrections and insertions with occasional deletions of letters, ink doodle on b7v (woodcut of elephant), signatures of unsigned leaves added in pencil; erased inscription on front free endleaf: "Rosenbach Jan. 4 1909...", trace of removed bookplate on second endleaf; Clarence S. Bemens, bookplate.
COLONNA, FRANCESCO]. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Venice: Aldus Manutius for Leonardus Crassus, December 1499. Chancery folio, 289 x 204mm. (11 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.). 234 leaves, with signatures. Types: 115R (text), 7:114Gk (a few words), 10:82R (title, errata, text in quires q, r, and elsewhere), 9:84Gk (errata), square Hebrew type (two lines each on b8r and b8v). Two letters (AM) stamped in by hand to correct the second title on a1r. 39 lines. 172 woodcuts, including 11 full-page illustrations, 39 woodcut initials (printed from 17 blocks), forming an acrostic including the dedicatee and probable author's name, Franciscus Columna. Black morocco, covers gilt-tooled in a Grolieresque pattern of interlacing strapwork and leafy vines with azuré infill, within double gilt fillet border, spine in six compartments, four similarly gilt, two gilt-lettered, g.e., double vellum endleaves, by Bedford; joints and extremities rubbed, very small worm track from fol. E1 to F4 affecting not more than 4 letters in each leaf, fols. b8, i1 and r1 each with a tiny perforation or filled wormhole catching one or two letters, discreet marginal repairs to four leaves, a very few small stains, a few letters inked over (see Provenance below) ; the Priapus cut on m6 is intact. HC 5501*; Pr 5574*; GW 7223; BMC V, 561; Renouard Alde 21.5; Essling 1198; Sander 2056; Schäfer/von Arnim 107; Goff C-767. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ILLUSTRATED PRINTED BOOK OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE, a treatise on art and aesthetics in the form of an allegorical love story. The woodcuts, a few of which are signed with the initial b , have been tentatively attributed to the Paduan miniaturist Benedetto Bordone, but like the many rival attributions this one remains contestable. Traditionally ascribed to Colonna, the text is also still open to question; the most recent attribution of the work to the Servite friar Eliseo da Treviso (cf. Piero Scapecchi, Accademie e biblioteche d'Italia , 1983, p. 286 sqq. and 1985, p. 68 sqq.) has been generally rejected for insufficient evidence. Provenance : Errata leaf with old ink underlinings; scattered neat eighteenth or nineteenth-century interlinear corrections and insertions with occasional deletions of letters, ink doodle on b7v (woodcut of elephant), signatures of unsigned leaves added in pencil; erased inscription on front free endleaf: "Rosenbach Jan. 4 1909...", trace of removed bookplate on second endleaf; Clarence S. Bemens, bookplate.
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