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TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS. Comoediae. Commentary by Philipp Melanchthon, Desiderius Erasmus, Étienne Dolet, and others; edited by Jean Thierry de
TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS. Comoediae. Commentary by Philipp Melanchthon, Desiderius Erasmus, Étienne Dolet, and others; edited by Jean Thierry de Beauvais. 145 small woodcut text illustrations of play scenes, including repetitions. [4], 3-776, [40] pages, including final blank. Folio, 17th-century vellum with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, soiled, spine darkened, short crack at top of front joint; light marginal dampstaining through much of volume, title soiled, A8 reinforced in gutter. Prince Liechtenstein bookplate. Paris: (Benoît Prevost for) Jean de Roigny, 1552
- Notes: first thierry edition, with commentary by 16 contemporary and chiefly Protestant scholars, with illustrations derived from the 1493 Lyon edition of Jean Trechsel; first issue, with colophon dated December 1551, later changed to January 1552. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 512.
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