Item #222385 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 on various Subjects. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl of.

First edition of Chesterfield's Letters

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 on various Subjects.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774.

Price: $5,000.00


About the item

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). First edition of Chesterfield's Letters. In later tan paper spine and blue boards. Fine. Only copy we have seen uncut. Gulick 2; Rothschild 596.

Item #222385