(1539). TERENCE. LE GRANT THERENCE EN FRANÇOYS TANT EN RIME - Lot 190

(1539). TERENCE. LE GRANT THERENCE EN FRANÇOYS TANT EN RIME QUE EN PROSE NOUVELLEMENT IMPRIME A PARIS. Paris, Guillaume de Bossozel, 1539. Gothic folio of 388 (numbered 389) leaves, brown calf, stamped boards, ribbed spine (period binding). "Livre très plaisant et joyeux contenant diverses sentences des facessies & jeux que jadis est jouez a Romme quon appelloit les comedies". This fine Gothic edition is decorated with a title in a Renaissance porticoed frame, the first illustration depicting an antique theater with seated spectators and those waiting to enter. The other, smaller woodcuts (204 x 137), numbering 307 - FOR 151 DIFFERENT WOODCUTTERS - show figures on stage, in front of an archway with four doors lined with curtains as décor. The woods used for Trechsel's 1493 Lyon edition were re-used. The translations have been attributed to different authors: the prose version, printed in Gothic, is probably by Guillaume Rippe, the rhymed version by Gilles Cybile in round letters. The penultimate leaf (388) is missing. The French translation is printed in gothic type, and the Latin text in round letters. Title page entirely rebound, ff: M8 partially rebound, DD1, DD3, DD4 repaired with little loss of text for the latter 2; ff. DD5 reengraved at bottom without loss of text. Boards and spine rebound. (Mortimer n°511) (Bechtel T.40) (Brunet V, 720) (USTC 39027) (Brun, p. 299).