Note 38 — IV. EARLY ITALIAN WOOD-ENGRAVING.
Reading edition
The Academy, October 15, 1872, pp. 383 et seq. Vide, also, Albert Ilg, “Ueber den Kunsthistorischen Werth der Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kunstliteratur in der Renaissance.” Wien, 1872. The original edition of the Dream of Poliphilo is rare and costly. It was re-issued in Venice, in 1545, and in Paris, with some variations (of which some account is given on a later page), in 1546. There is an abridged translation in French by Legrand, without cuts, printed by Didot in 1804.