1499 INCUNABULA FULLY ILLUSTRATED COMEDY by TERENCE antique RARE INCUNABLE

img{max-width:100%} TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS. 185-159 B.C.Terentius, cum directorio: vocabulorum,ssentiarum, artis comice / glosa interlineali / commentariis: Donato, Guidone, Ascensio. [Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Gruninger, 11 February 1499]Comoediae. [Gloss and commentary by Aelius Donatus, Guido Juvenalis, and Jodocus Badius Ascensius. ]Small folio: 8.5 by 12"Precious Strasbourg incunabula sought after for its remarkable wood-engraved illustration. This is the second edition of the theater of Terence printed by Grüninger, after that of 1496, which was the first illustrated edition of Terence. Established by the poet Johannes Curtus d'Ebenspach, it is accompanied by comments by Donat, Guy Jouenneaux and Josse Bade, and a life of Terence taken from Petrarch. The illustration, of typical Strasbourg style, is made up of 7 full-page woodcuts – the first, on the title, shows a theater with its actors and spectators, the others, placed at the head of each piece, presents the different