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PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS. Comoediae. Edited with commentary by Joannes Baptista Pius. [442] leaves. Roman type, with 5-line title in gothic and some use of Greek; 3-line heading on second leaf printed in red. Folio, 288x205 mm, 17th-century gilt-panelled calf; small wormholes through opening leaves not impairing legibility, scattered 17th-century marginalia, minor marginal stains on last several leaves. Signature of Jean-François Thevart, and school prize inscription to him dated 1674; 19th-century Bayeux ecclesiastical(?) embossed stamp; signatures of Georges Vincent of the Petit Séminaire de Caen dated 1925. (Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 18 January 1500)
Eighth edition, and first with the commentary by Pius; the first edition was published in 1472. Hain-Copinger 13084; BMC VI, 775; Goff P785; ISTC ip00785000.
