CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope. Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son. L: J. Dodsley, 1774; 1774; 1787. FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES, WITH RARE SUPPLEMENT.
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CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773). Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son. London: J. Dodsley, 1774; 1774; 1787.
3 volumes, 4to (276 x 219 mm), including Supplement. Half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, errata at end of vol. II. (Some minor offsetting and spotting, pale dampstaining to a few leaves.) Vols. I and II: contemporary calf gilt; vol. III: modern polished calf gilt (vols. I and II: neatly rebacked and recornered, some light rubbing and darkening to extremities; cloth slip-case. Provenance: Henry J. Spooner? (early ownership signature).
FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES, with the misprint “quia uroit” on p. 55 of Vol. I. WITH THE RARE SUPPLEMENT. Containing 30 years of correspondence from 1737 to 1768, Lord Chesterfield wrote more than 400 letters to his son Philip Stanhope (1732-1768). The letters were published posthumously by his son’s widow, and Samuel Johnson remarked that the letters "teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master." (See Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1754.) Rothschild 596.
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