COLONNA, FRANCESCO]. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Venice: Aldus Manutius for Leonardus Crassus, December 1499. Chancery folio, 272 x 184mm. (10 11/16 x 7 1/4in.). 234 leaves, with signatures. Types: 115R (text), 7:114Gk (text), 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. The Priapus cut on m6 is intact but bears traces of coloring at center. Dark green Jansenist morocco, spine in six compartments, two gilt-lettered, board edges and turn-ins with double gilt fillet, g.e., by Riviere and sons, mismatched morocco-edged slipcase (broken), a few small chips or scratches to covers, joints and extremities rubbed, spine faded to brown, title-leaf browned and soiled and with four small traces of sealing wax (?), a few small wormholes through text block of first and last 20 leaves, tiny perforation through fols. a8 and b1, woodcut border to q6r cropped, the woodcuts on b1v and l1r each with a small area touched up in ink, some slight marginal foxing, a few leaves discolored, occasional pale mostly marginal dampstaining . HC 5501*; Pr 5574*; GW 7223; BMC V, 561; Renouard Alde 21.5; Goff C-767. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ILLUSTRATED PRINTED BOOK OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. 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. The text, traditionally ascribed to Colonna, 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 : Marchese di Rivavol, eighteenth-century inscription on title; eighteenth-century purchase note on title ("Libro che si trovava doppio nella libreria d'Aglia") signed Amonnet Seg.n; Jorge Beristayn, bookplate, presentation inscription from (his wife?) Dolores S(?) J de Beristayn, dated August 1934, to: Juan Carlos Ahumada, bookplate, ink stamps on recto and verso of errata leaf.
COLONNA, FRANCESCO]. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Venice: Aldus Manutius for Leonardus Crassus, December 1499. Chancery folio, 272 x 184mm. (10 11/16 x 7 1/4in.). 234 leaves, with signatures. Types: 115R (text), 7:114Gk (text), 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. The Priapus cut on m6 is intact but bears traces of coloring at center. Dark green Jansenist morocco, spine in six compartments, two gilt-lettered, board edges and turn-ins with double gilt fillet, g.e., by Riviere and sons, mismatched morocco-edged slipcase (broken), a few small chips or scratches to covers, joints and extremities rubbed, spine faded to brown, title-leaf browned and soiled and with four small traces of sealing wax (?), a few small wormholes through text block of first and last 20 leaves, tiny perforation through fols. a8 and b1, woodcut border to q6r cropped, the woodcuts on b1v and l1r each with a small area touched up in ink, some slight marginal foxing, a few leaves discolored, occasional pale mostly marginal dampstaining . HC 5501*; Pr 5574*; GW 7223; BMC V, 561; Renouard Alde 21.5; Goff C-767. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ILLUSTRATED PRINTED BOOK OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. 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. The text, traditionally ascribed to Colonna, 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 : Marchese di Rivavol, eighteenth-century inscription on title; eighteenth-century purchase note on title ("Libro che si trovava doppio nella libreria d'Aglia") signed Amonnet Seg.n; Jorge Beristayn, bookplate, presentation inscription from (his wife?) Dolores S(?) J de Beristayn, dated August 1934, to: Juan Carlos Ahumada, bookplate, ink stamps on recto and verso of errata leaf.
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