FROM THE LIBRARIES OF ISAAC REED AND JOHN MITFORD
TERENCE.
Les comedies … avec la traduction et les remarques de Madame Dacier ….
Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.
3 vols, 8vo, pp. [iii]–lxxxviii, 511, [1]; [2], 485, [1]; [2], 431, [1], with an engraved frontispiece in vol. I, and 45 engraved plates by Picart; vol. I cockled, vol. II with pale dampstain to lower outer corner, else very good copies in contemporary red morocco, covers gilt with a wide tooled border, spines elaborately gilt in compartments with sunburst and cormorant tools, black morocco labels, numbered directly, some minor staining to covers; inscription to front endpaper of vol. I in the hand of Isaac Reed, ownership inscription in vol. I of John Mitford, with marginal pencil marks and notes in his fine hand to the endpapers of each volume; armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts.
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Les comedies … avec la traduction et les remarques de Madame Dacier ….
A fine edition of Anne Dacier’s French Terence (first published 1688), the translation here revised by her, and the notes expanded, with delightful illustrations by Picart.
Provenance: 1) the literary editor and book collector Isaac Reed (1742–1807), with his note on the superiority of this edition transcribed from Bayle’s Life of Madame Dacier. His extensive library, which was particularly rich in English drama, was sold over thirty-nine days in November–December 1807. This copy of Terence was lot 8567, sold for £1 3s 2d). The book collector and literary scholar John Mitford (1781–1859), with his signature dated 1816 and then July 1819, sold as lot 1888 in the sale of his Greek and Latin classics (Sotheby & Wilkinson, December 1859). 3) Edward Francis Witts (1813–1886), of Upper Slaughter, son of the clergyman and diarist Francis Edward Witts.
Brunet V, col. 721 (‘Edition la plus recherchée de cette traduction’); Cohen de Ricci 983.
