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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; lacks final blank. Folio, 315x200 mm, late 17th-/early 18th-century panelled calf, rebacked, raised bands and cover edges rubbed; light marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, early notes in ink on title, contents otherwise clean, front free endpaper loose. Paris: (Benoît Prevost for) Jean de Roigny, 1552
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-French 512.
