Author: PLAUTUS.
Title: Ex Plauti comoediis XX. quarum carmina magna ex parte in mensum suum restituta sunt.
Description: Venice, In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani, July 1522. 8vo. (21x12, 5cm). [xiv], 282 (of 284) lvs. With printer's device on title and on last page. Later calf. (binding rubbed, spine damaged, traces of old annotations on title-page (washed); worming in title-page repaired;leaves 75 & 78 missing; first part browned; some pages spotted; one leaf of the index repaired; traces of old annotations; cuttings from booksellers' catalogues pasted on fly-leaf; contemporary annotation on last page: "Ex officina Libraria Magni Joannis" etc. ¶ Provenance: armorial bookplate of Robert Westley Hall Dare. ¶ First and only Aldine edition. Renouard p.94: "Cette édition, faite par François d'Asola sur un exemplaire corrigé par Alde l'Ancien et par Erasme, n'est pas très estimé." Adams P.1487. Schweiger II/761: "Mit einer Vorrede von Franciscus Asulanus." ¶ "And then the Plautus, how much effort he (Aldus the Elder) expended on that, in which you gave him a great deal of help, for he used you to stick together, as it were, the lines of that Latin Siren." (letter of of Andrea Toressani Asulanus to Erasmus, 21 June 1517).

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