[Rarebooks] FS: Attractive set of the letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to his son. 2 vols. London: 1774

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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of. LETTERS WRITTEN 
BY... 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... Published by Mrs. Eugenia 
Stanhope from the Originals Now in Her Possession. In Two Volumes. 
London: Printed for J. Dodsley. 1774. Lg. 4to. First edition, second 
state. viii,568;(2),606pp. Lacking the half titles; with the corrected 
"qui auroit" on p. 55 of Vol. I, and with the errata leaf st the end of 
Vol. II. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Cont. speckled calf, 
elaborately gilt tooled edges and spine, red morocco spine labels, 
rebacked with the original spine strips laid back down. Bookplate on 
front pastedown of Vol. II of W. G. Daniel Tyssen (d. 1838), a wealthy 
landowner in Middlesex County (Hackney). An attractive set. $1,250.00 
(trade discount allowed)

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