First Edition. 8vo. 2 parts in 1, 321 leaves, engraved vignette portrait of Euripides by I. K. Sherwin on the title-page.
Jefferson’s manuscript and the Library of Congress catalogues call for one volume only. The work was issued in 2 volumes, with continuous signatures
and pagination, the title and half-title repeated in the second volume. The division occurs at sig. S
4.
Jefferson’s copy was bound for him in calf, gilt (cost $1.00) by John March on June 30, 1807, and it is to be assumed that
he had the two parts bound in 1 volume, with the second title and half-title suppressed.
Jodrell published an additional volume in 1789 on Alcestis. For his play
The Persian Heroine
, a copy of which he sent to Jefferson, see no. 4442.
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Senecae tragoediae. not. var.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 150, no. 22. Senecæ Tragœdiæ, Notis Variorum, 8vo.
SENECA,
Lucius Annaeus.
L. Annæi Senecæ Tragoediæ Cum exquisitis Variorum Observationib
s Et Nova Recensione Antonii Thysii . . .
Lvgdvni Batavorvm: Ex officina
Francisci Moyardi A
o.
1651.
PA6664 .A2 1651
8vo. 768 leaves including 3 blanks, engraved pictorial title, text in italic letter, long lines, notes in double columns below.
Graesse VI, 359.
Ebert 20937.
Dibdin II, 398.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
2f11.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 3 B.C.-A.D. 65, was born in Corduba in Spain. These tragedies are his most important poetical works.
Antonius Thysius, 1603-1665, Dutch scholar, was for a time Professor of Poetry at the University of Leyden, where he later held the chair
of eloquence and law, and, after the death of Heinsius, became the librarian of the University. This is his
first edition of the Tragedies of Seneca.
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Heywood’s Seneca.
Eng.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 149, no. 4. Heywood’s Seneca in English Metre, 12mo Oxford, 1560, black letter.
SENECA,
Lucius Annaeus.
Lucii Annei Senecæ Tragedia prima quæ inscribitur Hercules furens nuper recognita, & ab omnibus mendis, quibus antea scatebat sedulo purgata,
& in studiosæ iuuentutis vtilitatē, in
Anglicum metrum tanta fide conuersa, vt carmen pro carmine quoad
Anglica lingua patiatur pene redditum videas. Per Iasperum Heyvvodum Oxoniensem. The first Tragedie of Lucius Anneus Seneca, intituled Hercules furens, newly perused and of all faultes whereof it did before abound diligently corrected, and for the
profit of young schollers so faithfully translated into
English metre, that ye may se verse for verse tourned as farre as the phrase of the
english permitteth By Jasper Heywood studient in Oxford.
[Colophon.] Imprinted at
London by
Henrye Sutton dvvelling in pater noster rovve at the signe of the blacke Boy. Anno Domini,
m.d.lxi
. [1561.]
First Edition. 8vo. 92 leaves unnumbered, woodcut device on the title-page (McKerrow 141),
Latin and
English texts on opposite pages, the latter in black letter.
STC 22223.
Greg 34a.
Pforzheimer 860.
Backer II, 180, 1.
Gillow III, 298.
Dedicated to Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.
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