Les Comedies de Terence, Traduites en Francois par Madame Dacier, George Gallet, Amsterdam, 1700

A volume with two of the plays of Terence (Publius Terentius Afer - c. 190-159 BC). He was a Roman playwright and the author of six plays based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. These plays were originally performed c. 166-160 BC.

Les Comedies de Terence, Traduites en Francois par Madame Dacier. Avec Les Remarques Troisieme Edition Revue, Corrigee, & Enrichie de Figures a Chaque Comedie. This volume contains Phormio/Le Phormion and Hecyra/L'Hecyre.

This volume would originally have been one of three (we think Volume 3). A previous owner has scraped away the volume indication phrase on the title page to make it look like a stand-alone book.

Published by George Gallet, Amsterdam, 1700. Third Edition. 'Suivant la Copie de Paris'.

A good full calf leather hardback in contemporary binding. Covers bumped, scuffed and scraped, with raised bands and faded title label box to spine. With cracking to joints, making the covers a little weak, but the contents still bound. Some pencil makings to endpapers.

The frontispiece and title spread a little rubbed and worn, with some spotting. One 5mm marginal hole to frontispiece which is also split at the top 4cm, from the gutter. Text is generally clean and bright, with scattered spotting throughout. Dust toned edges to text block. Imperfect, but still a desirable copy.

Text in Latin and French.

432pp (although final page misspells this as 423), including one frontispiece plate for Phormion, and vignette title page.

Weight approximately 284g (unpacked).

Approx Dimensions: 

158mm high x 105mm wide x 27mm deep.