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CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of, (1694-1773). Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son... London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1774.
2 volumes, 4o. Half-titles. Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Some very minor pale spotting.) Contemporary tree calf gilt (skilfully rebacked). Provenance: George Cockburn (bookplate laid-in and his lengthy note on front free endpaper dated 1812).
FIRST EDITION. Chesterfield's private letters were posthumously published by his son's widow, and were originally not intended for publication. Chesterfield's celebrated letters attracted praise and criticism. Samuel Johnson said that the letters "teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master." (See Boswell Life of Johnson 1754.) Rothschild 596. (2)
2 volumes, 4o. Half-titles. Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Some very minor pale spotting.) Contemporary tree calf gilt (skilfully rebacked). Provenance: George Cockburn (bookplate laid-in and his lengthy note on front free endpaper dated 1812).
FIRST EDITION. Chesterfield's private letters were posthumously published by his son's widow, and were originally not intended for publication. Chesterfield's celebrated letters attracted praise and criticism. Samuel Johnson said that the letters "teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master." (See Boswell Life of Johnson 1754.) Rothschild 596. (2)