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. [with] MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl

Published by J. Dodsley; Letters. Edward and Charles Dilly, London, 1778

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First edition, state B, with the corrected error on line 16, p. 55, Volume I. Together four companion volumes. Quarto. LETTERS: (iv) vii, 568p; (iv), 606p, 1p. errata. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS: (vi), 293p, errata, 587p, (iv), 65p, 28p. All volumes with half-titles. Letters with engraved frontispiece. Misc. Works complete with 8 copper engravings (including the frontispieces). Bound in full period tree calf over heavy boards with marbled endpapers, the spines with red title labels gilt and floriated gilt panels, the covers with gilt borders in Greek key design. Each volume ex libris from the Milltown Park, S. J. Library with their sticker indicating the "O'Brien Bequest (William O'Brien 1832-1899, Judge and Bibliophile), and with their small blue stamp on 3 of the titles, and with bookplates of Robert Lampen. Gulick 2; Rothschild 596. Texts very clean, bindings with some old wear and minor cracks. All quite sound and presentable First edition, state B, with the corrected error on line 16, p. 55, Volume I.

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• Title: 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. [with] MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.
• Publisher: J. Dodsley; Letters. Edward and Charles Dilly, London
• Publication Date: 1778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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