PLAUTE

Edition with original illustrations by Jacques Touchet, one of the numbered copies on laid paper.
Handsome copy.

First Elzevier-type edition by Jansonium. With title-frontispiece.
Contemporary Dutch rigid vellum binding with flaps. Smooth spine with handwritten title. Holes on boards intended for ties. Front board detached from binding, same for spine. Endpapers detached from boards. Spine soiled.
Complete set of Plautus's 20 comedies.

First edition. Illustrated with a handsome frontispiece title. This edition is distinguished by learned and studied typography, the text is in italics and the notes at the bottom of pages.
Contemporary full vellum binding with overlapping flaps. Smooth spine. Title label added to headcap and partly detached. Good overall condition. Very fresh copy.
Edition established by Marc Zuerius Boxhornius (1612-1653), celebrated Dutch critic and scholar who was professor of eloquence at 19 years old at Leiden and succeeded Daniel Heinsius in the chair of history.
Handsome and interesting edition by Hacke in Leiden.

First edition of the translation by L. Tailhade, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Laurent Tailhade to his morphine-addicted friend Dominique Bonnaud.
Frontispiece by E. Gabard, charming head- and tailpieces in Art Nouveau style.
Spine sunned, some stains on the covers.

First edition. Edition not found in German libraries which possess an edition of 1535 in Basel with another commentator, nor in French and English libraries. Fine italic printing in small type. The first edition of Plautus is from 1472. Edition not cited in Brunet.
Later full vellum binding, perhaps 18th century. Spine with raised bands. Manuscript title in black ink in the 19th century.
The comedies of Plautus constitute the largest collection of works that we possess from antiquity. A manuscript note on the title page "Possedet Emilius Friaud professor anno 1855."
Engraved bookplate Jean Baptiste Peyer seigneur de Fontenelle.
Library label of Dr Broca.
Manuscript gift inscription from 1651 at the bottom of the title page: Emilius Frinaut professor.

Comedies of Plautus, translated into French by mademoiselle Le Fevre, with remarks and an examination according to the rules of theatre.
New edition. Illustrated with two frontispieces. Lacking the third frontispiece of volume III replaced by a blank leaf.
Contemporary full brown sheepskin binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Title illegible. Spine rubbed and cracked.
Fine edition and esteemed translation of these three comedies by Plautus (Amphitryon, Rudens, Epidicus) with numerous notes and remarks at the end of each play and a substantial preface. Anne Le Fèvre Dacier published numerous editions of Greek authors and was an authority on the matter, even though her condition as a woman did not allow her to reach the renown of her husband.