The Life of Niccolo Machiavelli Hardcover - 1963

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. (1963). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Occasional pencil underlining and marginalia. Dust-jacket in clear plastic cover, taped to boards and endpapers.; First edition in English. xii, 337, [3 (blank)] pages + 5 illustrations on 2 plate leaves. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 233 x 153mm. Top page edges dyed blue. Text in English. Translated from the Italian by Cecil Grayson. The Italian first edition was titled "Vita di Niccolo Machiavelli" (1954). "'I rise in the morning with the sun, and I go off to a wood of mine which I am having cut down, where I stop for two hours to see what was done the day before and to talk to the woodcutters who always have some trouble on hand either among themselves or with their neighbours . . . Leaving the wood I go to a spring and thence to some bird-traps of mine. I have a book with me, Dante or Petrarch of one of the minor poets, Tibullus, Ovid or the like. I read about their amorous passions and their loves, I remember my own, and dwell on these thoughts for a while. Then I go on to the road and into the tavern." - p. 151. .