Author: Plautus, Titus Maccius: (Gronovius, J.F., ed.:)
Title: Comoediae. Accedit commentarius [...]
Description: Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Hackiana, 1669. First Edition. 2 vols. bound as 1. 8vo., pp. [xxiv], 624, [ii], 625-1220, [lii]. Engraved title-page to vol.I, title-page with printer's device to vol.II. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Some small annotations in an old hand to ffep (one dated 1729), occasional other pages (eg. p.528) and 2 small pages of notepaper loosely inserted. Very occasional light spotting towards fore-edge, a few tiny ink spots. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, edges sprinkled red. Vertical split to vellum at spine neatly repaired, some marks and smudges, turn-in lifting at upper board, first few leaves a bit creased at fore-edge, very good. Ownership inscription of E. (Bersem?) in an old hand to title-page. The penultimate in a run of Gronovius' variorum edition of Plautus (the first in 1664, the final and optimal in 1684), with notes by him and others, and new readings from 6 MSS. Dibdin (4th edn.) II 312. Schweiger III 766. Graesse V 329.

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