Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden:

London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774. First edition. 2 volumes quarto (30 cm); Engraved frontispiece portrait in volume I. [4], vii, [1, blank], 568; [4], 606, [1, errata], [1, blank] pages. Half titles present. In contemporary polished tan calf, expertly rebacked in period style. Bookplate of Tatton Park in both volumes (the country estate of the Egerton family until 1958, when it passed to the National Trust). Preserved in custom-made cloth-covered slipcase. A handsome copy! Reference: 596.

Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the Originals now in her Possession." Corrected issue of the first edition of one of the most popular boos printed in 18th-century England. Complete with the portrait, half titles and errata leaf. (The misprint present in some copies on p. 55 of the first volume, "qui uroit," has here been corrected to "qui auroit.")