Letters written

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

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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; later half tan calf, red morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; minor scuffing but generally a very good copy with the half-titles and errata. Chesterfield's famous letters written to his son, Phillip Stanhope, his illegitimate child by one

• Binding: Leather

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