COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527)]. La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilio. Venice: sons of Aldus Manutius 1545.
COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527)]. La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilio. Venice: sons of Aldus Manutius 1545. 2 o (291 x 194 mm). Roman type, occasional Greek and Hebrew type. 170 fine woodcuts (9 full-page), printer's device on title, repeated on verso of final leaf. 5- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Repairs to blank lower right corners of most leaves.) Modern vellum. Second edition, reprinting page-for-page Aldus's 1499 edition, widely considered the most beautiful book of the 15th century. The 1545 edition, printed by Aldus's heirs, re-using the exceptional series of woodcut illustrations. The Paduan miniaturist, Benedetto Bordone, has been advanced as the artist of the illustrations (two blocks are signed 'b'), but the attribution remains unproven. Six blocks have been re-cut: b4v, b5r (2), e2v, e5r and x2r. Despite its claim to be "corrected," the text on n1v and n8r has been transposed, as it was in the first edition. "Cette réimpression est plus rare que l'édit. Originale" (Sander). Adams C-2414; Mortimer Harvard Italian 131; Renouard, Alde , pp.133-34; Essling Pt. I, vol.2:2, no.119; Sander 2057.
COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527)]. La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilio. Venice: sons of Aldus Manutius 1545.
COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527)]. La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilio. Venice: sons of Aldus Manutius 1545. 2 o (291 x 194 mm). Roman type, occasional Greek and Hebrew type. 170 fine woodcuts (9 full-page), printer's device on title, repeated on verso of final leaf. 5- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Repairs to blank lower right corners of most leaves.) Modern vellum. Second edition, reprinting page-for-page Aldus's 1499 edition, widely considered the most beautiful book of the 15th century. The 1545 edition, printed by Aldus's heirs, re-using the exceptional series of woodcut illustrations. The Paduan miniaturist, Benedetto Bordone, has been advanced as the artist of the illustrations (two blocks are signed 'b'), but the attribution remains unproven. Six blocks have been re-cut: b4v, b5r (2), e2v, e5r and x2r. Despite its claim to be "corrected," the text on n1v and n8r has been transposed, as it was in the first edition. "Cette réimpression est plus rare que l'édit. Originale" (Sander). Adams C-2414; Mortimer Harvard Italian 131; Renouard, Alde , pp.133-34; Essling Pt. I, vol.2:2, no.119; Sander 2057.
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