Lot 20
Plautus (Titus Maccius) Comoediae XX, Venice, Lazzaro Soardi, 1511.
Hammer Price: £1,000
Description
Plautus (Titus Maccius) Comoediae XX, collation: aa10 A-Z8 a-c8 d10 AA10 BB-LL8, aa10v, full-page woodcut of a theatrical performance, numerous woodcut illustrations in text within borders of varying designs, woodcut decorative initials, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, lacking title and final blank, 4ff. 18th century ms. at start supplying preliminaries to the incorrect edition (that of Venice, 1499), written by a William Browne, 1707, alumnus of Cambridge University, a few marginal repairs, some staining and spotting, some water-staining, mostly marginal and mostly at end, modern calf-backed cloth, gilt spine in compartments and preserving an earlier red morocco label 'Plautus 1499', folio (305 x 195mm.), Venice, Lazzaro Soardi, 14 August, 1511.
⁂ Literature: Adams P1481; Mortimer, Italian, 387; Sander 5748; EDIT 16 CNCE 31936.
Description
Plautus (Titus Maccius) Comoediae XX, collation: aa10 A-Z8 a-c8 d10 AA10 BB-LL8, aa10v, full-page woodcut of a theatrical performance, numerous woodcut illustrations in text within borders of varying designs, woodcut decorative initials, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, lacking title and final blank, 4ff. 18th century ms. at start supplying preliminaries to the incorrect edition (that of Venice, 1499), written by a William Browne, 1707, alumnus of Cambridge University, a few marginal repairs, some staining and spotting, some water-staining, mostly marginal and mostly at end, modern calf-backed cloth, gilt spine in compartments and preserving an earlier red morocco label 'Plautus 1499', folio (305 x 195mm.), Venice, Lazzaro Soardi, 14 August, 1511.
⁂ Literature: Adams P1481; Mortimer, Italian, 387; Sander 5748; EDIT 16 CNCE 31936.
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