M. Accii Plauti Comoediae Quae Supersunt. Ad Meliorum Codicum Fidem Recensuit, Versus Ordinavit, Difficiliora Interpretatus est Carolus Herm. Weise. (FINE BINDING) (2 tomes)

Titus Maccius Plautus; Karl Hermann Weise (Carl)

Quedlinburgi et Lipsiae : Sumtibus Godofr. Bassii, 1837

[Fine Binding by Francis Bedford] Gorgeous binding.  5 raised spine bands. Morocco spine labels.  Polished leather double gilt ruled.  Slight loss to gilt at rear cover of v.1. All edges gilt. Marbled end sheets. LVIII, 531, [1]; [2], 574 pages. Spotting to pages. Neat pencil marginalia. Some loose ephemera, including a quite old and attractive book mark from Basil Blackwell booksellers of Oxford. 

T. 01 : Insunt Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Capteivei, Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator. --T. 02 : Insunt Miles gloriosus, Mostellaria, Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Rudens, Stichus, Trinumus, Truculentus. Fragmenta, Index, praemissa est Dissertatio de metris et de scansione versuum Plautinorum.  

Francis Bedford (1799-1883) was a noted English binder active in London (Soho) and Westminster.