Author: MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo
Title: The Prince
Description: New York, Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of a book in the library of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Translated from the Italian by Hill Thompson with a new preface by Irwin Edman. Copy #740 of 1500, issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in as well as something we've not encountered before: a broadsheet titled "How to Tell Gold from Shoddy," a translation taken from the MANUALE TYPOGRAFICA printed in 1788 by Giambattista Bodoni. Fine, bright copy in a Near Fine slipcase .

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