PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius (ca 254-184 B.C.). Comoediae. xx . Commentary by Bernardus Saracenus and Giovanni Pietro Valla. Venice: Lazarus Soardus, 1511.
PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius (ca 254-184 B.C.). Comoediae. xx . Commentary by Bernardus Saracenus and Giovanni Pietro Valla. Venice: Lazarus Soardus, 1511. 2 o (318 x 213 mm). Woodcut title-border, full-page woodcut of an actor addressing an audience on aa10v, 316 composite scene woodcuts, and printer's woodcut device at end. (O6 with initial cut out on verso and loss of some text on recto, O4-7 and X2 with minor marginal repairs, a few wormholes penetrating text, some upper margins with pale stains.) Contemporary blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards, flyleaves from a 14th-century medical manuscript (endpapers renewed, front joint split). Provenance : Carolo Magini (owner's signature on title, and his? occasional marginalia); W. J. Leighton catalogue description (ca 1905) mounted on front pastedown; C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplate); acquired from Lucien Goldschmidt, 1961. Second Saracenus-Valla edition, and THE MOST LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED PLAUTUS OF THE RENAISSANCE. The woodcut of the actor addressing the audience in a theatre was first used in Soardi's 1497 edition of Terence and stands as one of the most famous images in the history of the stage. The splendid woodcut title-border first appeared in the Tridino's Malermi Bible printed at Venice in 1493. The series of 316 scene illustrations are based on those used by Johann Grüninger in his Terence printed in 1496. They are each made up of separate blocks containing between three and six figures with blocks of trees and doorways added for scenery. The figures are often identified above with their names set in type in scroll blocks; and the scenes are often filled out by foliate strip borders on the sides. The present copy is the roman title issue: Mortimer describes another issue with a longer title set in gothic letter within a slightly different border, and a few other textual differences on its verso and conjugate. Adams P-1481; Essling 1724; Mortimer Italian 387; Sander 5748.
PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius (ca 254-184 B.C.). Comoediae. xx . Commentary by Bernardus Saracenus and Giovanni Pietro Valla. Venice: Lazarus Soardus, 1511.
PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius (ca 254-184 B.C.). Comoediae. xx . Commentary by Bernardus Saracenus and Giovanni Pietro Valla. Venice: Lazarus Soardus, 1511. 2 o (318 x 213 mm). Woodcut title-border, full-page woodcut of an actor addressing an audience on aa10v, 316 composite scene woodcuts, and printer's woodcut device at end. (O6 with initial cut out on verso and loss of some text on recto, O4-7 and X2 with minor marginal repairs, a few wormholes penetrating text, some upper margins with pale stains.) Contemporary blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards, flyleaves from a 14th-century medical manuscript (endpapers renewed, front joint split). Provenance : Carolo Magini (owner's signature on title, and his? occasional marginalia); W. J. Leighton catalogue description (ca 1905) mounted on front pastedown; C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplate); acquired from Lucien Goldschmidt, 1961. Second Saracenus-Valla edition, and THE MOST LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED PLAUTUS OF THE RENAISSANCE. The woodcut of the actor addressing the audience in a theatre was first used in Soardi's 1497 edition of Terence and stands as one of the most famous images in the history of the stage. The splendid woodcut title-border first appeared in the Tridino's Malermi Bible printed at Venice in 1493. The series of 316 scene illustrations are based on those used by Johann Grüninger in his Terence printed in 1496. They are each made up of separate blocks containing between three and six figures with blocks of trees and doorways added for scenery. The figures are often identified above with their names set in type in scroll blocks; and the scenes are often filled out by foliate strip borders on the sides. The present copy is the roman title issue: Mortimer describes another issue with a longer title set in gothic letter within a slightly different border, and a few other textual differences on its verso and conjugate. Adams P-1481; Essling 1724; Mortimer Italian 387; Sander 5748.
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