[Rarebooks] FS - Terence/Six Comedies, 1742

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*P. TERENTII [TERENCE] [PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER]. /COMOEDIAE SEX, Cum 
Interpretatione Donati e/t Calphurnii, et Commentario Perpetuo. Curavit 
Arn. Henr. Westerhovius. /*Isaacum Vander Kloot, The Hague, Holland. 
1732. 8vo, pp. 1322, 46.

Terence (died 159 BC?) was a Roman writer of comedy. He wrote six plays 
during his short life: "Andria", "Hecyra", "Heauton timorumenos", 
Eunuchus", "Phormio" (from which the expression "fortis fortuna adiuvat" 
is derived ["fortune favours the brave"]), and "Adelphoe". They were 
widely known and studied in the Middle Ages, and much read in England in 
the sixteenth century. Terence's influence can be traced in early 
English comedy and again in the comedy of manners of the Restoration 
(Oxford Companion to Classical Literature). This volume is bound in 
contemporary mottled calf with gilt decorated spine and boards. Title 
page printed in red and black with vignette, with a copper plate 
frontispiece. Rear hinge is weak but still intact. Front hinge cracked: 
now close to detaching from text block. Overall, the binding is scuffed 
and rubbed. Marbled endpapers with old armorial bookplate on front 
pastedown, the bookplate being that of the Rev. Jasper Hume Nicolls 
(1818-1877) who, in 1845, was appointed the first Principal of Bishop's 
College (now Bishop's University) in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. 
Contents clean, with slight age-darkening and a few early marginal 
notations. It would be a simple matter for a competent bookbinder to 
strengthen the joints and repair the hinges, while retaining the 
original binding.

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