PLAUTUS. Twenty Comedies. No place, no date [in the colophon - Lot 64

PLAUTUS. Twenty Comedies. No place, no date [in the colophon]: Venice, Melchior Sessa and Pierre de Ravenne, August 1518. Folio, 19th-century half-vellum binding. A fine Venetian edition of Plautus’s Comedies, printed in Roman type and illustrated with 87 woodcuts in the text, several of which are repeated. (Essling, no. 1725.) Sessa’s mark on the title page and at the end. Title page partially lined with reinforced margins. Traces of old coloring on a few woodcuts. Wormholes affecting a few letters in the text and in the colophon on the last 3 leaves. Water damage to a few leaves at the beginning and end of the volume. Rounded corners. Missing the last (blank) leaf.

Stima:€600

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