[Gentillet (Innocent)] A Discourse upon the Meanes of Wel Governing and Maintaining in Good Peace, A

[Gentillet (Innocent)] A Discourse upon the Meanes of Wel Governing and Maintaining in Good Peace, A Kingdome...Against Nicholas Machiavel, translated by Simon Patericke, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, [par.]1 blank present (with very small hole), title slightly cropped at fore-edge affecting ruled border, B3 & B4 bound in wrong order, early annotation to B1v (trimmed), a few instances of ink underlining, occasional very faint damp-staining, mainly to first and last few ff., contemporary panelled mottled calf, rebacked with original backstrip laid down, recornered, little rubbed, [STC 11744], folio, Adam Islip, 1608.*** A very good copy of the second edition in English of Gentillet's famous condemnation of Machiavelli's The Prince, first published in English in 1602. Provenance: Harold Hardy (armorial bookplate).