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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.

THE SECOND EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

LONDON:

Printed for EDWARD and CHARLES DILLY.

1777-1779

Four volumes, bound in 2.

Each of the 2 volumes have beeen rebound in later half red calf and measure approx21.1cm x 13.6cm x 4.8cm. The bindings are a bit surface worn, scuffed and grubby, and the extremities are rubbed, bumped and a little nicked to corners. The name "D. S. Garson" in gilt to the bottom of the spine coverings. The top edges are darkened/grubby. The bindings are firm. Internally, the contents have a little scattered foxing and browning in places throughout, heavier, to, and around the engraved plates. There is a little scattered corner tip creasing in to a couple of ssections. Else, on the whole the contents of each are largely, bright, clean and crisp and tidy throughout.

375, [5], 411, [1];[2], 400; [2], 401, [5] 106 p. Complete.

There are 4 frontispieces, and 4 further engraved plates.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) was an influential 18th-century British statesman, diplomat, orator, and man of letters who came to epitomise the wit and polished courtly manners of the Enlightenment era.

Published shortly after Chesterfield's death, this collection features a wide array of his previously unprinted correspondence with close friends, alongside his political essays, speeches, and miscellaneous writings that reflect the wit and social polish for which he was renowned. The work opens with an extensive biography written by Dutch physician and librarian Dr. Matthew Maty, which includes a chronicle of the wider civil, literary, and political history of Stanhope's era.

Second edition, four volumes, bound in two.

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