Letters Written

by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together with several other pieces

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the Originals now in her Possession. Engraved frontispiece portrait in volume I. 4 , vii, 1, blank , 568; 4 , 606, 1, errata , 1, blank pp. 2 vols. 4to 31.5 x 24.5 cm . In later tan paper spine and blue boards. Fine. Only copy we have seen uncut. Gulick 2; Rothschild 596. Item #222385

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