Letters written

by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope…together with other several pieces

$1,750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: J. Dodsley, 1774. First edition, second state of leaf H4r in vol. I line 16 reading qui auroit ; 2 vols, 4to, pp. 4 , vii, 1 , 568; 4 , 606, 1 ; engraved frontis portrait after a painting by William Hoare; contemporary full calf, red and green morocco labels on gilt decorated spines, slight cracking and minor restoration of the joints, but, all in all, a very good copy with the half-titles and errata, and with the engraved bookplates of Richard

• Binding: Leather

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