Plautus.

Ex Plauti Comoediis XX quarum carmina magna ex parte in mensum suum restituta sunt.

      Venice: in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani Soceri. Mense Iulio. , 1522 - a little faint foxing, title somewhat stained around old gently washed inscriptions, some edges a bit dampmarked, a few small ink marks, ff. [xiv], 284, 8vo., late nineteenth century vellum, smooth backstrip divided by wide gilt dentelle rolls, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest with central butterfly-shape gilt decoration, somewhat soiled, endpapers with armorial bookplate (James Whittle, struck through), bookseller?s ticket, and a bibliographic note, good The first and only Aldine edition of Plautus, edited by Franciscus Asulanus (Francesco Torresani). The preface states that the basis of the text was a version prepared by Aldus Manutius and Erasmus. In a letter to Erasmus of 1517, Andrea Torresani, Francesco?s father, recalls the work of Aldus and Erasmus: ?And then the Plautus, how much effort [Aldus] expended on that, in which you gave him a great deal of help, for he used you to stick together, as it were, the lines of this Latin Siren? (Ep. 589). Despite this, Dibdin asserts that there are relatively few textual differences between this and the Giunta edition of the same year; Joseph Dane suggests the reason is that Erasmus and Aldus were not preparing an edition but instead working on metre (vide pp. 121-3 of ?On Metrical Confusion and Consensus in Early Editions of Terence? in Humanistica Lovaniensia, vol. XLVIII). (CNCE 37687; Renouard p. 94.2; Adams P1487; Dibdin II 308; Schweiger II 761; Goldsmid 189; Moss II 460; BM STC 524) [Attributes: Hard Cover]