Elzevier.- Terentius Afer (Publius) Comœdiae sex, engraved pictorial title, small woodcut portrait of Terence, a few ff. printed in red and black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, light water-staining to lower corners, occasional spotting, contemporary English black blind-stamped panelled morocco, covers with acorn and foliage tools, within double filet borders, spine in compartments and with circle and cross tools, rubbed, 12mo, Leiden, Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1635; and a larger copy of the same edition in contemporary vellum, 12mo (2)
⁂ First Elzevier edition (see Willems for issue points), which Willems praises as follows: 'la plus belle et la plus estimée est incontestablement la première, qui est un chef-d'œuvre typographique'.
References: Willems 433.
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