Author: [Plautus] Plautus, Titus Maccius: (Pareus, Philippus, ed.:)

Title: Comoediae XX superstites et deperditarum fragmenta.

Publication: Francof. [Frankfurt]: Philip Jacob Fisher, 1641.

Description: 8vo. 3 parts in 1, pp. [224], 826, [2], 31, [1], 85, [1], with engraved title. Title in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut vignette to verso of last. Title dusty, some scattered foxing or dampstaining, small paper flaw and minor clean tear to outer blank margin of two leaves. Contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges.

'The last edition of [Johannes Philippus] Par? in which were corrected several criticised passages of the previous editions' (Graesse V, 328-29). In addition to Plautus's twenty comedies, it features numerous fragments, 'Querolus' and 'Animadversionum ablegmina'.

Bibliography: Graesse V, 328-29. Not in Dibdin.

Reference Number: [53281]

Price: £250

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