[Rarebooks] fa: EARL OF SEFTON'S COPY of the EARL OF CHESTERFIELD'S Miscellaneous Works 2 Vols. 1777 - PERIOD TREE CALF

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Miscellaneous Works of the late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield: Consisting of letters to his friends, never before printed, and various other articles. To which are prefixed, memoirs of his life, tending to Illustrate the civil, literary, and political, history of his time. By M. Maty, M.D. late Principal Librarian of the British Museum, and Secretary to the Royal Society. In two volumes. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, MDCCLXXVII [1777]. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, large 4tos (30 x 24 cm), bound in period tree calf, rebacked, spines tooled in gilt, with raised bands and gilt-stamped morocco spine labels; half-titles; engraved vignette and 8 engraved plates, including frontispieces (all called for). ESTC T81038; Gulick 149.

Two massive volumes, handsomely printed and nobly bound, with nice wide margins, containing dozens of Chesterfield's essays and letters, as well as Maty's "Life" of the earl. Some wear and chipping to the edges of the boards; offsetting from the plates, ink stain and marginal dampstain to the frontispiece of vol. II; occasional browning and foxing; but by and large quite clean and fresh, firmly bound. With the armorial Croxteth Library bookplates of William Phillip, Earl of Sefton. As there were two earls with those surnames, this might be either the 2nd earl (1772-1838) or the 4th (1835-1897).