Terence - Publii Terentii Afri Comodiae - 1751

Publius Terentius Afri’s Comedies, revised to conform to the best exemplars. The various readings, which are notable in the manuscripts and scholars’ commentaries, have been added. [The Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer, revised after the best exemplars. The most remarkable variants encountered in manuscripts and scholars’ commentaries have been added.]
London, J. and P. Knapton, and G. Sandey. 1751.

“London edition of Terence’s Comedies in the time of the Grand Tour. Preceded by a life of the author, it brings together his six known plays: the Andrian, the Eunuch, the Heautontimoroumenos, the Adelphi, the Phormion, and the Heocyra. The work is illustrated with a portrait in the likeness of Terence on the title, repeated for each of the two parts, and with 6 out-of-text plates placed as the frontispiece of each comedy. These engravings depict shelves on which masks corresponding to the different roles in the play are arranged. All these engravings bear the signature “J.S. Müller sc.” The German-born engraver (1715–1792) settled in London in 1744, anglicizing his name to “John Miller” after 1760. Terence (in Latin: Publius Terentius Afer), born in Carthage around 190 BC and died in Rome in 159 BC, is a Latin comic poet of Berber origin. Author of only six plays which have all come down to us, he is regarded, with Plautus, as one of the two great masters of the genre in Rome, and his work has exerted a profound influence on European theater, from Antiquity to modern times.” (according to the Petite Boutique de Bea, Tonnay-Charente)

Two volumes, handsome bindings in full red morocco, spine with five gold-ornamented nerves, borders on the outer boards, gilding on the inner boards.
400 and 200 pages, 14.5 by 20 cm.