Francesco Colonna. A Fanciful Tale of The Writing of the Hypnerotomachia
Les Bibliolatres de France, 1949. Translated by Theodore Wesley Koch. Illustrated. 64 pages (untrimmed), tall slim 8vo, decorative orange cloth. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1929. Limited to 400 copies. Very good (+). Charles Nodier (1780-1844) was a French man of letters identified with the Romantic movement. His last novel, "Franciscus Columna," about a Dominican friar, was taken from a 15th century work called "Le Songe de Poliphile." More