![]() ![]() Contemporary ruled calf, edges red (rebacked, corners showing, tightly bound). Woodcut rules (margin of Dd1 trimmed away, a few spots and stains, small closed tear affecting rule, edges of title toned). ![]() This is the issue with "animadversions" in italics on the title cancelled leaf B1 is not present. A humanist project aiming at discerning political virture through studying antiquity, the Discourses were only published posthumously. "Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind-it should be remembered that a parallel work to The Prince was his historical essay on the first ten books of Livy" (PMM). London: Printed by Thomas Paine for William Hills and Daniel Pakeman, 1636.įirst edition in English of Machiavelli's political commentary on Livy's history of Rome. ![]()
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