The works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, citizen and secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English.
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Category
Books
Date
1680
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3049003
Summary
Bibliographic description
[40],177,188-189,[5],199-256 [i.e. 263],266-267,[5], 267-314,317-431,[5],433-528 p. ; fol. Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case L. Shelf 4. Pencil drawings and figures on final page. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: seventeenth-cetury mottled calf. Rebacked; sprinkled calf spine; sewn onto six raised bands; gold lettered spine lable Machiavel's Works. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine.
Makers and roles
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) Henry Neville (1620-1694)