Francesco Colonna; A Fanciful Tale of the Writing of the Hypnerotomachia
Chicago: Privately printed, 1929. Hardcover. Orange and black illustrated cloth over boards; white title block with black lettering and red illustration on front cover; top edge gilt; untrimmed pages; bw frontispiece; 62 pp; bw. VG- (light shelfwear to boards and block. light foxing spotsn mostly to front and rear end pages. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise clear.). Item #186414
Printed in an edition of 400 copies. "With reproductions of the colophon of the Aldine edition of the 'Hypnerotomachia' of 1499 and of the title page of the 1545 edition in the Harvard University Library; and of the frescoes by Tommaso da Modena in the chapter house of the Dominicans at Treviso, signed and dated 1352"--Page 4 Translated by Theodore Wesley Koch.
OCLC: 944097
Price: $48.00