L. & M. Annaei Senecæ Tragœdiæ, / cum notis Th. Farnabii.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1678
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3215534
Summary
Bibliographic description
428, [2] p. ; 16mo. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "E[x] libris Amb: Pimlowe / Coll: Regin: Cant: Alum[ni?] / 1702" [i.e. Rev. Ambrose Pimlowe (1682?-1750)]. Braces and "Prol:"[?] added to right hand side of inscription in a different hand. Title page inscribed in a different hand: "Amb: Pimlowe" and stamped "AP". Nineteenth-century crest bookplate (not listed in Franks): 'Scott Chad'; obscures further (eighteenth-century?) manuscript inscription on front pastedown. Capital letter "R" written in pencil on front free endpaper. Head of front free endpaper trimmed away to remove an ownership inscription, traces of which remain. Letter "a" written in ink on rear free endpaper. Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf; triple blind fillet to form a border; blind rolled near joint edge; sewn onto four raised bands; blind fillets on spine; remnant of brown spine label, lettered direct (gilt tooled): '[Sen]eca [Tra]gediæ'; edge rolled in gilt; red sprinkled edges; fore-edge title: "Sen. Trag.".
Makers and roles
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD) Thomas Farnaby (1575-1647)