[GENTILLET, INNOCENT]

A Discourse Upon the Meanes of Wel Governing and Maintaining in Good Peace, a Kingdom, or Other Principalitie. London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1608 

Folio (10 ¾ x 7 ¼ in.; 270 x 185 mm). Printers device on 💜title-page, woodcut borders, initials, head- and tail-pieces; some dampstaining and browning throughout, particularly to gatherings O-Q, a few rust holes, upper margins from gathering AA on a bit frayed and soiled, generally not affecting text. Contemporary limp vellum, covers stamped "TM" with a floral device; vellum stained ꧂and worn, lacking two pairs of ties, defective endpapers. 

The second edition in English of Gentillet's famous anti-Machiavelli book, first published in Latin in Geneva in 1576 in response to The Prince. 

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STC 11744