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TERENCE.
401
Without Dcite.~\
On the reeto of the following leaf, sign. A, begins the Life of Agricola;
which concludes the volume on the reverse of the 10th leaf from the
commencernent of the same biography; with the word FINIS. The
Life contains but one signature, which has 10 leaves. It seems pro-
bable, from the appearance of the press-work, and from the colophon
having precerled the biography of Agricoia, that the latter was printed
subsequently to the execution of the foregoing portions of the volume,
as a separate work. The reader may be pleased to consult the Introd.
to the Classics, vol. ii. p. 247, for some intelligence relating to this
impression, not altogether uninteresting. The present tine copy was
in the La Valliere Colleetion; and is in red morocco binding.
466. Terentius. (,Supposed to have heen printed
hy Mentelin, at Strashourg.) TVithout Date.
Folio.
Ejditio Princeps. Twelve years ago* I remember to have expe-
rienced very great difficulty in ascertaining what bibliographers had
considered to be the first impression of this popular author; nor is
such diffieulty entirely removed at the present period. Perliaps the
point can never be satisfactorily adjusted. It will, however, be
necessary to preface the present order of arrangement by a few
observations.
Various dateless editions may be said to contend for the priority.
Of these, we may formally notice the present one, by Mentelin: a
second, by P. de Lignamine; a third, by George Laver—which two
latter are described in the Edit. Rom. p. 412, but not with copiousness;
or with the satisfaction usually derivable from the descriptions of
Audiffredi:—a fourth is from the press of Gering, Crantz, and Fri-
burger: a fifth (the third in the present order) is executed ina rude
Roman type, and unlike any other with which Lord Spencer or myself
are acquainted : a sixth, evidently executed in the Sortensian Monastery;
and a seventh, recently discovered, said to be executed in tlie large
Gothic type of Fust and Schoeffer. There are unquestionably other
* Introd, to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions ofthe Greek and Latin Classics,
Glocester, 1802,12mo. p. 46.
3 p
VOL. II.
401
Without Dcite.~\
On the reeto of the following leaf, sign. A, begins the Life of Agricola;
which concludes the volume on the reverse of the 10th leaf from the
commencernent of the same biography; with the word FINIS. The
Life contains but one signature, which has 10 leaves. It seems pro-
bable, from the appearance of the press-work, and from the colophon
having precerled the biography of Agricoia, that the latter was printed
subsequently to the execution of the foregoing portions of the volume,
as a separate work. The reader may be pleased to consult the Introd.
to the Classics, vol. ii. p. 247, for some intelligence relating to this
impression, not altogether uninteresting. The present tine copy was
in the La Valliere Colleetion; and is in red morocco binding.
466. Terentius. (,Supposed to have heen printed
hy Mentelin, at Strashourg.) TVithout Date.
Folio.
Ejditio Princeps. Twelve years ago* I remember to have expe-
rienced very great difficulty in ascertaining what bibliographers had
considered to be the first impression of this popular author; nor is
such diffieulty entirely removed at the present period. Perliaps the
point can never be satisfactorily adjusted. It will, however, be
necessary to preface the present order of arrangement by a few
observations.
Various dateless editions may be said to contend for the priority.
Of these, we may formally notice the present one, by Mentelin: a
second, by P. de Lignamine; a third, by George Laver—which two
latter are described in the Edit. Rom. p. 412, but not with copiousness;
or with the satisfaction usually derivable from the descriptions of
Audiffredi:—a fourth is from the press of Gering, Crantz, and Fri-
burger: a fifth (the third in the present order) is executed ina rude
Roman type, and unlike any other with which Lord Spencer or myself
are acquainted : a sixth, evidently executed in the Sortensian Monastery;
and a seventh, recently discovered, said to be executed in tlie large
Gothic type of Fust and Schoeffer. There are unquestionably other
* Introd, to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions ofthe Greek and Latin Classics,
Glocester, 1802,12mo. p. 46.
3 p
VOL. II.