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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.