The Prince (Il Principe)

Book-club tells do not apply to the 1532 or 1640 editions. The overwhelming reality for any donated copy is a modern reprint or translation: Everyman, Penguin Classics, Modern Library, Oxford World's Classics, Dover Thrift, the Tudor Translations reprint of the early English versions, and a very large volume of print-on-demand and 'facsimile' reissues, plus 19th- and 20th-century Italian reprints of the Blado or Giunta text. A 1532 or 1640 date printed on a modern reset title page is not a hand-press book: check for laid paper with chain lines, woodcut initials and ornaments, no ISBN, and period binding structure before treating any copy as antiquarian. Note also that Dacres's translation reappeared in later 17th-century printings (the sources consulted place the next English appearance more than twenty years after 1640, censorship having been re-established by 1643), so a Dacres text is not by itself a 1640 first — read the imprint.