COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527). Hypnerotomachy... Lot 18

COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527). Hypnerotomachy or Discourse from Poliphile's Dream, Deduisant comme Amour le combat à l'occasion de Polia. Paris: Jacques Kerver, 1561. Last of the three Parisian editions of the French translation given by Kerver. Copy with very nice margins, in good condition. Ordered and translated by Jacques Gohory (1520-1576) and Jean Martin (14...? - c. 1553), this edition is without doubt one of the most beautiful illustrated books of the 16th century French. The illustrations, inspired by those of the 1499 original, are attributed to Jean Goujon. The drawing of the beautiful title engraved with the terms-satyres was recently attributed by Dominique Cordellier to Luca Penni. The figures take up some of the woods of the Aldine edition and adapt them. It is thus a book a little different from the original which is thus proposed to the public (...) who are interested in Antiquity, architecture, palaces and gardens (...) Forgetting that the Poliphile is a romantic narrative, most 16th century readers will look for architectural models'' (Martine Furno, CESR notice). The figures are the same as in the first French edition of 1546 except for the architectural plate on the back of the page [Bvi]. The ornamented letters have been renewed. Gohory's introductory text, which first appeared in the 1554 edition, given after the death of Jean Martin, appears on the back of the title. Mortimer, I, 147. Jean Martin, Un traducteur au temps de François Ier et de Henri II (Cahiers V.-L. Saulnier, 16), Paris, 1999. D. Cordellier, Luca Penni, un disciple de Raphaël à Fontainebleau, Paris,2012, pp. 111-113. In-folio (335 x 215 mm). Illustrated title and 181 engraved woodcuts, 13 of which are full-page, ornate initials and entablatures. Bound in contemporary style : brown calf, gilt central medallion, gilt spine spine, gilt title, gilt spine spine, gilt head (spine redone, original endpapers preserved, corners restored, a few stains on the b