Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince
Posted in First Edition Books, Rare Books on Sep 10th, 2010
“The authentic interpreter of Machiavelli is the whole of later history.” —Lord Acton” Almost immediately upon its 1532 first appearance in print, The Prince exerted a formidable and far-reaching influence. Henry VIII’s agent Thomas Cromwell obtained a manuscript copy only a few years after the first publication. The works of Shakespeare and Marlowe abound with [...]