TERENCE Publii Terentii Afri comoediae.

£1,850 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Cut-and-Paste Terence TERENCE Publii Terentii Afri comoediae. Birmingham: John Baskerville. 1772. 4to. Nineteenth-century calf, central octagonal panel tooled in blind to a diapered design, borders roll-tooled in blind and ruled in gilt, plum morocco lettering-piece to spine, spine decorated in gilt and black, edges gilt, later marbled endpapers; pp. [ii], 364; pp. 203 and 299 misnumbered; this copy with 44 copper engravings by Picart mounted to interleaved blanks ( see below ); ruled in red throughout, typographic ornaments to title; rebacked and recornered in nineteenth-century brown morocco; sporadic light foxing (heavier to first quire), small marginal loss to head of last leaf not touching text; else a very good copy; nineteenth-century inscription ‘Acheson | Coll: Perf. Harrow’ to first plate verso, Beaufoy Library bookplate to front pastedown, armorial bookplate of Boies Penrose II to front free endpaper, 1920s catalogue cutting pasted to front free endpaper (price cancelled in ink). Baskerville’s handsome quarto edition of Terence’s comedies, our copy extra-illustrated by Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford (1806–1864) using handsome engravings by Picart cut from a copy of the 1717 Rotterdam-printed French edition of Terence. Baskerville also published Terence’s Comoediae in octavo in the same year. Gosford’s interest in books began at the age of nine, and the family library in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (for which he was later MP) ‘became a refuge when Gosfor

• Binding: Hardcover

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