[OFFICINA BODONI]
TERENCE. Andria: A Comedy by Terence. Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1971. One of 160 copies. Publisher's beige paper boards backed in vellum, title gilt on spine, housed in green cloth slipcase. 13 1/2 x 10 inches (35 x 25 cm); 122, [4] pp., woodcuts. A fine copy in a lightly worn slipcase, prospectus laid-in.

This edition brings to fruition one part of an illustrated edition of Terence that was planned by the Basel printer Johann Amerbach in 1493. A number of illustrations for Amerbach's edition were completed by Albrecht Durer before the project was eventually abandoned. For the Bodoni edition of Andria, Terence's first comedy, twenty-five of Durer's illustrations for the Amerbach Terence were copied and cut by the engraver Fritz Kredel. The text is based on Richard Bernard's English translation, which was first published in 1598. The book was set in Dante type and printed on Fratelli Magnani paper.