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SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS. Tragoediae. With commentary by Gellio Bernardino Marmita, Daniel Caietanus, and Josse Bade, edited by Desiderius Erasmus. Title in red and black with Bade printing press device within woodcut historiated architectural border; woodcut criblé initials of various sizes. [6], 267, [1] leaves. Folio, 322x214 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties; occasional marginal foxing and soiling, name of Erasmus and old inscriptions inked out on title, clean tear in i2, dark stain through leaves 100-117 and 173-184, blank lower portion of last leaf excised and restored. [Paris]: (Josse Bade, 5 December 1514)
