Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse doce

[468] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm [468] pages : 31 cm Name of the author given in acrostic formed by the first letters of the chapters: Poliam frater Franciscus Columna peramauit "P. Scapecchi, in Accademie e biblioteche d'Italia 51 (1983) pp. 286-98 and 53 (1985) pp. 68-73, argues that Colonna is the dedicatee, and that the author is Fra Eliseo da Treviso."--ISTC (RLIN), ic00767000 Imprint from colophon (F4r), in which date precedes printer's name. At bottom of F3r: .M. CCCC. LXVII. Kalendis Maii Signatures: 2⁴ a-y⁸ z¹⁰ A-E⁸€ F⁴ C1 missigned E; F4v and z10v are blanks Woodcut capitals Woodcuts on a6v and c1r signed: b Errata: F4r Includes (p. [2]-[8]) contributions by Leonardo Crasso, Johann Baptista Scytha, and Andreas Maro Brixianus. Crasso underwrote the cost of the book's printing. Cf. Gerulaitis, L.V., Printing and publishing in fifteenth-century Venice, p. 4