[Literature] [Stanhope, Philip Dormer]
Letters Written by the Late Right Honorable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son
(Volume I:) Boston: Printed for John Boyle, and John Douglass McDougall; (Volume II:) Newbury-port: Printed by John Mycall, for John Boyle, and J. D. N'Dougall of Boston, 1779. In two volumes. First Boston edition. 12mo. (i), (i)-(xxiii), (1)-460; (1)-620 pp. Contemporary brown sheep, stamped in gilt, light wear to extremities and some rubbing to spine, front board of second volume slightly bowed and with some creasing to leather near outer edge; both volumes with early ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers and later book-plates to front paste-downs, front hinge in each volume slightly starting, second volume with some white staining and wormholes to front endpapers; some spotting and toning throughout text blocks, more significant in second volume. ESTC W30636. Evans 16534, 16535.An early American edition of this notable work by Philip Dormer Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, beautifully preserved in its contemporary binding.