The Prince (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

185 pp. 8vo. Original brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in, silk moire endpapers. Translated by Hill Thompson, preface by Irwin Edman. 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.