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Hypnerotomachie, ou, Discours du songe de Poliphile : deduisant comme amour le combat a l'occasion de Polia : soubz la fiction de quoy l'aucteur monstrant que toutes choses terrestres ne sont que vanité, traicte de plusieurs matieres profitables, & dignes de memoire / nouuellement traduict de langage Italien en Francois.

Accession number
PML 138876
Creator
Colonna, Francesco, -1527.
Published
A Paris : Pour Iaques Keruer, 1554.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
Second edition of the first French translation.
Title printed within ornamental woodcut border.
Woodcuts attributed to Jean Goujon and Jean Cousin and freely adapted from the cuts of the Aldine editions of 1499 and 1545.
Leaf 102 misnumbered 103.
"Imprime pour Iaques Keruer ... par Marin Massellin le XXII. iour de Decembre, l'an M.D.LIII"--Colophon.
Dedicatory epistle signed by editor, Jean Martin; joint editor was Jacques Gohory.
Translation ascribed by some sources to Cardinal de Lenoncourt.
Description
[6], 157 leaves (i.e. 12, 314 p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 34 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Green morocco tooled in gilt by Leighton of Brewer St.
Classification
Department