The Harvard Classics Vol. 36 — Machiavelli, More & Luther: The Prince, Utopia, Ninety-Five Theses

Hardcover, dark green cloth boards with blind-embossed Harvard shield; spine gilt-lettered. Tight and square; pages toned and unmarked. No dust jacket, as issued. Collier Press, New York, 1910. Volume 36 of the Harvard Classics ("Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf"). Contains Machiavelli's The Prince (trans. N. H. Thomson); More's Utopia in Ralph Robinson's 1551 translation, historically the first English rendering of the Latin original, and the version that has remained in continuous use, preceded by Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More; and three works by Luther (trans. R. S. Grignon and C. A. Buchheim). With introductions, notes, and period illustrations, including a frontispiece depicting Luther before the Diet of Worms, 1521.