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Bookplate inserted; bookseller stamp for The Roycroft, Book & Art Shop, Sydney inside cover. Two passages highlighted in margin with pencil: “Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves. Those who rely simply on the lion do not understand what they are about. Therefore a wise lord cannot, nor ought he to, keep faith when such observance may be turned against him, and when the reasons that caused him to pledge it exist no longer. If men were entirely good this precept would not hold, but because they are bad, and will not keep faith with you, you too are not bound to observe it with them. Nor will there ever be wanting to a prince legitimate reasons to excuse this non-observance. Of this endless modern examples could be given, showing how many treaties and engagements have been made void and of no effect through the faithlessness of princes; and he who has known best how to employ the fox has succeeded best.” [p. 138]; “[Therefore it is necessary for him to have a mind ready to turn itself accordingly as the winds and variations of fortune force it, yet,] as I have said, not to diverge from the good if he can avoid doing so, but, if compelled, then to know how to set about it.” [pp. 139 – 140]