Author: Terence [Publius Terentius Afer]
Title: Les Comedies de Terence
Description: Amsterdam , George Gallet, 1699-1700 . Leather. A late seventeenth-century French edition of the Comedies of Terence, translated by Madame Dacier, complete in three volumes. A French translation of The Comedies of Terence. Complete in three volumes, uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf. Troisieme Edition.Illustrated with seven engraved plates, comprised of three plates and a frontispiece to Volume I, one plate to Volume II and two plates to Volume III. Lacking one plate to Volume II, according to a collation provided by the Hathi Digital Library. Translated from the original Latin into French by Madame Dacier. Containing the comedies of Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, a Roman African playwright whose works were first performed between 166 and 160 BC. Terence wrote his plays in a simple and conversational Latin, resulting in his works being used throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance to teach Latin.With a preface and life of the author to Volume I. Ink inscription of Thomas Wilkinson, dated 1705. Bound in contemporary speckled calf. Externally, sound, with rubbing to the extremities, heavier to joints. Hinges are a little strained, with the front hinges tender. Joints are cracked, heavier to I and II. Small worming marks to joints and backstrips of I and II. Ink inscription to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with just the odd mark. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: Terence les comedies de terence madame dacier plays les comedies de terence Not Stated


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