1589 Plautus Comoediae Viginti Complete Latin Antonius Tardif Rare Vellum
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1589 PLAUTUS COMOEDIAE VIGINTI COMPLETE LATIN ANTONIUS TARDIF RARE VELLUM. Comoediae Viginti. Lugduni (Lyon): Apud Antonium Tardif,1589. Contemporary limp vellum with manuscript spine title. Text complete with continuous pagination. PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS. Comoediae Viginti. Lugduni (Lyon): Apud Antonium Tardif, 1589 . 16mo (approximately 3 × 4¾ inches ). Late sixteenth-century Lyon edition of the twenty surviving comedies of Plautus, printed by Antonius Tardif . An attractive scholarly edition of one of the foundational works of Roman comedy, extensively annotated in an early hand throughout. Contemporary limp vellum with manuscript spine title. Early ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Text complete with continuous pagination. A well-preserved and highly appealing sixteenth-century classical imprint in its original vellum binding.
