Comoediae
published August 29, 1493
Publisher, French, active 1488 - 1498
Author, 195 - 159? B.C.
Editor, 1462 - 1535
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 161 woodcut illustrations (159 woodblocks, 8 repeats, 1 woodcut titlepage showing the author in his study and 1 full-page woodcut of an antique theater [a4v])
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Credit Line
Gift of Marianne Gourary in memory of her husband Paul Gourary
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Dimensions
book: 25.4 x 18 x 6 cm (10 x 7 1/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
page size: 24 x 16 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.) -
Accession
2009.141.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Prince Liechtenstein Library (H. Bohatta, Katalog der Inkunabeln, Vienna, 1910, no. 339); H.P. Kraus; purchased by Marianne Gourary, 1975; gift to NGA, 2009.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1935
Hind, Arthur M. An Introduction to a history of Woodcut. II. New York, 1935: 609.