Hypnerotomachia Poliphili / [Francesco Colonna].

Venice : Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Dec. 1499.

234 unnumbered leaves : woodcuts: illustrations ; (folio)

Wellcome copy is a fragment, comprises 4 leaves only, contained in a volume of specimens of early printing, bound in an old cover of stamped pigskin on oak boards.

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.

Copy 1 Note: Fragment, comprises 4 leaves only, contained in a volume of specimens of early printing, bound in an old cover of stamped pigskin on oak boards.

GW 7223

Poynter *5