CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, 4th Earl. Letters written... to his son. London: for J. Dodsley 1774. 2 vols., 4to, 301 x 232 mm. (11 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.), contemporary mottled calf, covers gilt-panelled, spines densely gilt with a repeated pallet and small floral tools, turn-ins gilt, edges stained yellow, red and green morocco gilt lettering-pieces, old repairs to joints, now cracked, corners rubbed, cloth slipcase, scattered foxing, browning to a few leaves in vol. 2. FIRST EDITION, half-titles, engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. 1, final leaf of errata in vol. 2, H4r in vol. 1 with line 16 in corrected state. Rothschild 596. Blairhame bookplate. (2)