Menander; Philemon

Menandri et Philemonis Reliquiae Quotquot reperiri potuerunt; Graece et Latine, cum Notis Hugonis Grotii et Joannis Clerici [= The Relics of Menander and Philemon ... in Greek and Latin]

Amstelodami [= Amsterdam]: Thomam Lombrail, 1709. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [17], 2-375, [23], pp. Late eighteenth century paneled mottled calf, twentieth-century spine done in six compartments, gold lettering and gold rules and a maroon leather label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges decoratively stained red. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with two plates (frontispiece busts of Menander and Philemon) and with woodcut head and tailpieces. The text is in Greek and Latin, notes in Latin. With notes by Hugo de Groot and Jean Le Clerc. Brunet 352. Dibdin 235. Graesse 484. Dibdin notes this edition was quite controversial when it was published, as Le Clerc did not apparently have the skills to put together notes and a commentary on the Athenian playwrights. The comic works of these two Athenians survive almost entirely incomplete (though we have large portions of a few of Menander's plays through the discovery of papyri). They were both contemporaries of Aristotle, and their plays were popular in Ptolemaic Egypt. Very Good. Item #000015844

Spine sympathetically rebacked, rubbing to the corners, an abrasion to the rear board.

Price: $300.00