The Prince : Gilded Pocket Edition

This Arcturus Ornate Classics gilded pocket edition presents Machiavelli's The Prince, the treatise on power and statecraft first published posthumously in 1532.

Written as practical advice for rulers, the book advocates a ruthless political realism, examining how power is won, held and lost through the actions of history's most notable and controversial leaders.

It remains one of the foundational texts of political philosophy, still debated for its unflinching take on the morality, or amorality, of governing.

This edition is produced as a decorative clothbound volume with silver-embossed covers and gilded page edges, making it as suited to a gift shelf as to a philosophy reading list.