L. Annaei Senecae Philosophi et M. Annaei Senecae Rhetoris quae extant Opera

Folio (14 x 9 2/8 inches). Vignette title-page printed in red and black, wood-engraved head-pieces and initials (some occasionally heavy spotting and browning towards the end of the volume). Contemporary calf, each cover decorated with a gilt wreath incorporating small thistles (rebacked and quite worn). First edition thus, with the notes of Lipius. Including works by both Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Younger, and with the 16th-17th-century commentaries of Denis Godefroy (1549 – 1622), Carolus Albertus, Nicolaus Faber, and Adreas Schottus (1552 –1629). Seneca the Younger was arguably Rome’s leading intellectual figure in the mid-1st century CE and with Sextus Afranius Burrus (1 - 62), virtual ruler of the Roman world between the years 54 and 62, during emperor Nero’s reign, although Nero was to eventually command Seneca’s suicide. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.