[LEAF BOOK - ALDINE PRESS]. Aldus Pius Manutius. With an essay by Theodore Low De Vinne together with a leaf from the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed at Venice in 1499. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1924.
Small folio. With an original leaf from Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili bound in on stub. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper cover label, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 80 of 192 copies that included original leaves, from a total edition of 250. This copy, comprising: a single leaf, printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius for Leonardus Crassus, December 1499, super-chancery folio (295 x 197mm), sig. t8 (pagination "156" in an early hand), half-page woodcut diagram attributed to Benedetto Bordon. Goff C-767; ISTC ic00767000.
THE FIRST LEAF BOOK PRODUCED BY THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. The Club chose Aldine's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili for its inaugural publication which has "long been admired for its design, it has also been a puzzle for those who have tried to identify its author and unravel the meaning of the text" (Joel Silver, "Catalog of the Exhibition,": in Disbound and Dispersed 8). The price of a copy varied with the quality and desirability of the included leaf, the most expensive ($15 or more) being a leaf containing a woodcut. Chalmers, Disbound and Dispersed Checklist 22.
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