Francesco COLONNA, Claudius POPELIN
Le songe de Poliphile ou hypnérotomachie
Isidore Liseux|Paris 1883|12 x 18.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of the translation, notes and introduction established by Claudius Popelin, one of 400 numbered copies on Holland paper, one draw after 2 and 8 parchment Japan.
Binders full cartonnage vellum way back smooth, book title and author's name lettered in the medieval manner on the back decorated with a red typographical flagship black garlands heads and feet flat, name author and book title lettered in the medieval manner and decorated with red initials on the boards, bookplate pasted on a contreplat the first volume, fragile parchment wrappers and back preserved and bound in, red heads, pastiches signed bindings of Thiebaut.
Signed autograph Claudius Popelin to Menabrea Count, Marquis of Valdora and ambassador of His Majesty the King of Italy in France on the first volume.
Book illustrated with woodcuts engraved by A. Prunaire again.
Nice and rare copy.
Binders full cartonnage vellum way back smooth, book title and author's name lettered in the medieval manner on the back decorated with a red typographical flagship black garlands heads and feet flat, name author and book title lettered in the medieval manner and decorated with red initials on the boards, bookplate pasted on a contreplat the first volume, fragile parchment wrappers and back preserved and bound in, red heads, pastiches signed bindings of Thiebaut.
Signed autograph Claudius Popelin to Menabrea Count, Marquis of Valdora and ambassador of His Majesty the King of Italy in France on the first volume.
Book illustrated with woodcuts engraved by A. Prunaire again.
Nice and rare copy.
Sold