Colonna, Francesco

2o (11 7/8 x 8 in.; 300 x 204 mm.). Roman Greek and Hebrew type. 170 fine woodcuts, including 9 full-page (with that containing Priapus unusually uncensored). 5- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters and hand-written initials. First and final leaves from the 1499 edition (without the printer's device). Repair to lower right corner of title page.) Printing somet.mes s light
Modern dark blue morocco by James MacDonald, New York, covers detached.  

W. K. Bixby (bookplate); Library of the JTS of America (bookplate. gift from Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach. 

Adams C-2414; Mort.mes r Harvard Italian 131; Renouard, Alde, pp.133-34; Essling Pt. I, vol.2:2, no.119; Sander 2057. 

First and final leaves from the 1499 edition (without the printer's device). Repair to lower right corner of title page.) Printing somet.mes s light. Modern dark blue morocco by James MacDonald, New York, covers detached.
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Second edition, reprinting page-for-page Aldus's 1499 edition, widely considered the most beautiful book of the 15th century. The 1545 edition, printed by Aldus's heirs, re-using the exceptional series of woodcut illustrations.