The workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, both morrall and naturall. Containing, 1. His bookes of benefites. 2. His epistles. 3. His booke of prouidence. 4. Three bookes of anger. 5. Two bookes of clemencie. 6. His booke of a blessed life. 7. His booke of the tranquilitie of the minde. 8. His booke of the constancie of a wiseman. 9. His booke of the shortnesse of life. 10. Two bookes of consolation to Martia. 11. Three bookes of consolation to Heluia. 12. His booke of consolation to Polibius. 13. His seuen bookes of naturall questions. Translated by Tho. Lodge, D. in Physicke.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1614
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217182
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48], 324, 335-915, 914-917, [23] p. ; fol. Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case D. Shelf 3. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: seventeenth-century calf, with gilt tooled panel and centrepiece. Rebacked; sewn onto six raised bands; gold lettered red spine label: Seneca's Workes. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD) Thomas Lodge