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The workes of Lucius Annaeus Seneca .

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., author.; Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.; Elstracke, Renold, active 1590-1630, printmaker.; Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.; Broadbent, N. M., former owner.; Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.; Hughes, Radulphus, active 17th century, former owner.; Huges, John, active 17th century, former owner.; Hughes, Catherina, active 1686, former owner.; Eyton, Tho. (Thomas), former owner.
1620
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Bindings collection image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 22214 copy 2

Title
The workes of Lucius Annaeus Seneca .
Uniform title
Works. English
Edition
Newly inlarged and corrected by Thomas Lodge D.M.P.
Created/published
London : Printed by Willi. Stansby, 1620.
Description
[40], 921, [23] p. ; 32 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., author.
Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.
Elstracke, Renold, active 1590-1630, printmaker.
Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.
Broadbent, N. M., former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Hughes, Radulphus, active 17th century, former owner.
Huges, John, active 17th century, former owner.
Hughes, Catherina, active 1686, former owner.
Eyton, Tho. (Thomas), former owner.
Note
With a life of Seneca written by Justus Lipsius.

The title page is engraved and signed: RE sc:, i.e. Renold Elstracke.

Colophon reads: London, printed by VVilliam Stansby, dwelling in Thames-streete, by Pauls-wharfe, next to St. Peters Church. 1620.

"The epistles of Lucius Annaeus Seneca the philosopher" and "The memorable and famous tracts: both morall and naturall" each have separate title page dated 1620; pagination and register are continuous.

Includes index.

Signatures: a-b⁴ c-d⁶, B-4I⁶ 4K⁴ 4L⁶; a1 blank.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE blg last leaf (4L6) is colophon ; engr. title page is a2
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 22214
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 626
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S117064
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Bindings collection image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 22214 copy 2
Genre/form
Printed waste.
Made-up copies.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
STC 22214 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs1692. Small manuscript bifolium with list of books bound in at front: "A note of all my bookes wch. are wth. mee"; rust-holes sligihtly affecting text, pages 227-231. Bound in old calf; printed waste (fragment of Maccabees in English) with autograph "Radulphus Hughes." Provenance: inscribed on first blank: "Tho.[Thomas] Eyton. Me jure tenet"; first blank, endpapers and colophon leaf with inscriptions of "Mis Catherina Hughes her Booke 1686"; "Mr John Huges" (last leaf of dedication, and elsewhere); Broadbent collection, with printed labels "Lot 99" "B"; Folger purchase from Broadbent cat., no. 99
Call number
STC 22214 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH187/33. Imperfect: wanting the colophon leaf; wanting the blank. Made-up copy? - t.p. possibly supplied. Gathering 2O misbound: 1,5,3,4,2,6; water-stained, visible from about pp. 650-700. In a blind-tooled calf binding by Richard Billingsley, Oxford; Gibson roll XXIV with initials N.S. (Nicholas Smith) (MS. note on binding, front free endpaper); rebacked. Provenance: Harmsworth copy