[Rarebooks] FS: 1st Irish ed. of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son. 2 vols. Dublin: 1774

[Kenneth Karmiole]

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. Dublin: Printed for E. Lynch et al. 1774. First Irish edition. 8vo. 2 vols. viii,575,(1);(2),608,(4)pp. With the "Postscript" containing an extract of the Earl of Chesterfield's will. Copper engraved frontispiece portrait. Both volumes finely bound by the Riverside Press in full polished brown levant morocco, gilt. Bookplates on front pastedowns. Partially erased previous owner's signature at top of both title pages, resulting in Vol. II with a 1/2" hole affecting a few letters of the title.    $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first Irish edition, published the same year as the first English edition.
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