The Prince: A Limited Edition (The Franklin Library's The 100 Greatest Books of All Time Series)

xv, [3], 146 pp. 8vo. Full black leather, gilt titles and decoration, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in, silk moire endpapers. Includes illustrations by Quentin Fiore. Machiavelli's treatise on the methods by which rulers should obtain and maintain power over subjects remain controversial in their unapologetic severity, and did much to change political viewpoints and strategies.