Terence's comedys
Subtitle: translated into English, with critical and explantory notes. : To which is prefixed A dissertation on the life and writings of Terence : containing an enquiry into the use and progress of dramatic poetry in Greece and Rome, with remarks on the comic measure
Contributors: Batley, Jeremiah, -1737, bookseller; Cox, Thomas, -1754, bookseller; Mynde, James, 1702-1771, engraver; Cooke, Thomas, 1703-1756, translator; Cooke, Thomas, 1703-1756; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed for J. Battley at the Dove in Paternoster Row, and T. Cox at the Lamb under the Royal Exchange.
Published: 1734
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Latin drama (Comedy); Translations into English
Other titles: Publii Terentii Afri comoediae; Publii Terentii comoediae
Work titles: Works
Notes: "Dissertation on the life and writings of Terence" is on p. [17]-51, 1st sequence of v.1.

According to ESTC(RLIN), the "Dissertation" was written by Thomas Cooke.

Errata: v.1: p. [1], final sequence; v.2: p. [1] of final sequence; v.3: p. [12] of final sequence.

Booksellers' advertisements: p. [2]-[3], final sequence of v.1.

Index: [14] p., final sequence of v.3.

Engraved frontispiece portrait of Terence (v.1) is signed: "Jas. Mynde sc."

Latin and English text on opposite pages.

Head- and -tail pieces.

Each volume has added t.p. in Latin reading: Publii Terentii Afti Comoediae, nunc primum editae ad hoc exemplar.

Half t.p's to each volume have a parallel title in English and Latin reading: Publii Terentii Comoediae. Terence's Comedys.

T.p. of v.3 reads: Terence's Comedys, translated into English, with critical and explanatory notes. : To which is added, A table of sums, in Attic money, with their proportion to English money.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T137479

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Andrian.; title: Stepmother.; title: v. 2. Self-tormenter.; title: Eunuch.; title: v. 3. Phormio.; title: Brothers.