P. Terentii Afri Comoediae. Recensuit, notasque suas et Gabrielis Faerni addidit Richardus Bentleius. Editio Altera.Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetstein, G. Smith, 1727. 4to. With a frontispiece of Aesop, including the portrait of William August (1721-1765) Duke of Cumberland. Vellum over thick boards, ruled in gold with gold corner pieces and a gilt stamp of Minerva with the coat-of-arms of The Hague in the center, ribbed spine gilt in compartments (price-binding of the Latin School in The Hague (Spoelder, The Hague, 3).
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[10], 88, [96] pp.Second edition of the edition of the Phaedrus Fables, originally published in Cambridge and London, in 1726 by the world-famous philologist and classical scholar Richard Bentley (1662-1742), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, considered the founder of historical philology.Here this edition is included in Bentleys edition of the Comedies of Terence. In the same year 1727 Burman launched his prestigious edition of Phaedrus (see nr. 31) attacking this Bentley edition rejecting many of the numerous frivolous emendations.Slight browning and foxing throughout.l Landwehr, F169; Schwabe/Barbier, 82-84.
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- P. Terentii Afri Comoediae. Recensuit, notasque suas et Gabrielis Faerni addidit Richardus Bentleius. Editio Altera.Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetstein, G. Smith, 1727. 4to. With a frontispiece of Aesop, including the portrait of William August (1721-1765) Duke of Cumberland. Vellum over thick boards, ruled in gold with gold corner pieces and a gilt stamp of Minerva with the coat-of-arms of The Hague in the center, ribbed spine gilt in compartments (price-binding of the Latin School in The Hague (Spoelder, The Hague, 3).
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