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P. Terentius Afer Cum Commentariis Aelii Donati, Guidonis Iuuenalis Cenomani, Petri Marsi in Omnes Fabulas, Io. Calphurnij Brixiensis in Heautontimorumenon [Comoedias]
by P. Terentius Afer [Publius Terentius Afer] [Terence] [Comoedias]
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Venetiis: Apud Ioan Gryphium, 1580. Includes the plays: Andria; Eunuchus; Heautontimoreumenon; Adelphia; Hecyra; Phormio; with significant commentary. Includes inhabited woodcut initials throughout, some additional small woodcuts, and a printer's device on the title page. Title page dated 1580; colophon dated 1558. Full contemporary or slightly later flexible vellum covers with maroon spine label, [28] + 468 pages numbered on rectos only (numbers to 234), a total of 496 pages. Vellum grubby, spine label barely readable, diagonal closed tear to spine above the spine label, no front free endpaper, sound text block, both pastedowns have chips or tears, pages generally clean with some minor dampstaining mainly to the top edges of a dozen or so pages toward the middle, very old ink doodles on the final blank and lower margin below the colophon, minor finger soil. A sound copy.. Hard Cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019010
- Title
- P. Terentius Afer Cum Commentariis Aelii Donati, Guidonis Iuuenalis Cenomani, Petri Marsi in Omnes Fabulas, Io. Calphurnij Brixiensis in Heautontimorumenon [Comoedias]
- Author
- P. Terentius Afer [Publius Terentius Afer] [Terence] [Comoedias]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Apud Ioan Gryphium
- Place of Publication
- Venetiis
- Date Published
- 1580
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- TERENCE'S COMEDIES CLASSIC LATIN TEXT PLAYS COMMENTARY EARLY PRINTING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Bindings, Distinctive Press, Early Printing;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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