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COMOEDIAE SEX, Cum Interpretatione Donati e/t Calphurnii, et Commentario Perpetuo Curavit Arn. Henr. Westerhovius
by P. TERENTII [TERENCE] [PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
The Hague, Holland: Isaacum Vander Kloot, 1732. Hardcover. copper plate frontispiece. pp. 1322, 46. Very thick 8vo. Title page printed in red and black with vignette. This volume is bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt decorated spine and boards. Rear hinge is weak but still intact. Front hinge cracked: now close to detaching from text block. Overall, the binding is scuffed and rubbed. Marbled endpapers with old armorial bookplate on front pastedown, the bookplate being that of the Rev. Jasper Hume Nicolls (1818-1877) who, in 1845, was appointed the first Principal of Bishop's College (now Bishop's University) in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Contents clean, with slight age-darkening and a few early marginal notations. It would be a simple matter for a competent bookbinder to strengthen the joints and repair the hinges, while retaining the original binding. Terence (died 159 BC?) was a Roman writer of comedy. He wrote six plays during his short life: 'Andria', 'Hecyra', 'Heauton timorumenos', Eunuchus', 'Phormio' (from which the expression 'fortis fortuna adiuvat' is derived ['fortune favours the brave']), and 'Adelphoe'. They were widely known and studied in the Middle Ages, and much read in England in the sixteenth century. Terence's influence can be traced in early English comedy and again in the comedy of manners of the Restoration (Oxford Companion to Classical Literature).
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- Bookseller
- BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- COMOEDIAE SEX, Cum Interpretatione Donati e/t Calphurnii, et Commentario Perpetuo Curavit Arn. Henr. Westerhovius
- Author
- P. TERENTII [TERENCE] [PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER]
- Illustrator
- copper plate frontispiece
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Isaacum Vander Kloot
- Place of Publication
- The Hague, Holland
- Date Published
- 1732
- Keywords
- Comedies;Plays;Drama;Rome;Romans;Classics;Latin;;
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Title Page
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- Bookplate
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Gilt
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