Letters written by the Right Honorable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to Arthur Charles Stanhope, Esq. relative to the education of His Lordships's godson, Philip, the late Earl

Book Description

London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1817. [iv], xii, 200pp., 12mo. With the half-title, the last four pages (197-200) are publisher’s advertisements. Modern wrappers. First edition of previously-unpublished personal letters from Chesterfield, with an unsigned preface explaining their publication and some of the other characters in the letters, which included (as the boy’s schoomasters) Cuthbert Shaw, previously a strolling player, and Samuel Johnson’s friend William Dodd, who was hanged for forging a promissory note in Chesterfield’s name.

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