Other details
- Description:
234 unnumbered leaves : woodcuts: illustrations ; f⁰. 29 cm
- Published:
Venice, Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Dec. 1499.
- Language:
Italian
- Notes:
Leaf [1a] (t.-p.): Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, vbi hvmana omnia non nisi somnivm esse docet ...
Woodcuts on leaves [10b] and [21a] signed: b.
Name of author given in acrostic formed by the first letters of the chapters.
Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) *5501. Gesamtkat. d. Wiegendr., 7223; BMC V 561; Goff C-767.
Printed at the expenses of L. Crassus, whose letter, along with verses by Scytha and Marc Brixianus, precedes the text.
Ascription to Colonna questioned.
The woodcuts are said to have inspired a number of later artists.
Leaf 5a without alterations shown in BMC, GW.
- Local Notes:
RBC Incunabula 399.7 superv'd c.1: Repaired. Leaf 3 on stub, verso forward. Book-plate of John Camp Williams. In royal gold-tooled vellum binding.
- OCLC Number:
8922460
- Other Identifiers:
LCCN: 48040450
