Seneca the Younger is well known to history both as tutor to the Emperor Nero and as a writer of prose and poetry. The most important of his surviving poetical works were his nine tragedies. This is the first printed edition. It was produced in Ferrara, which at the time was a centre for artists and writers from all over Europe.

Binding description
Rebound in the Buckingham House bindery in the eighteenth century. The simple panel design uses a variety of three- and two-line roll tools, with floral lozenges at the corners of the centre frame and a decorated roll inside the inner frame. The Royal Arms appear in the centre. The spine is tooled with other floral devices, a lozenge, corner tools and roll tools.