1699-1700 Les Comedies de Terence

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Uncommon

A French translation of The Comedies of Terence.

Complete in three volumes, uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf.

Troisieme Edition.

Illustrated with seven engraved plates, comprised of three plates and a frontispiece to Volume I, one plate to Volume II and two plates to Volume III. Lacking one plate to Volume II, according to a collation provided by the Hathi Digital Library. 

Translated from the original Latin into French by Madame Dacier.

Containing the comedies of Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, a Roman African playwright whose works were first performed between 166 and 160 BC.

Terence wrote his plays in a simple and conversational Latin, resulting in his works being used throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance to teach Latin.

With a preface and life of the author to Volume I. 

Ink inscription of Thomas Wilkinson, dated 1705.