LETTERS WRITTEN BY THE LATE HONOURABLE PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, TO HIS SON PHILIP STANHOPE, ESQ; TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL OTHERS PIECES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS

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FOUR VOLUMES uniformly bound in old calf. Red leather spine labels, and small green leather volume numbers. Peripheral browning of most preliminary pages. Portrait frontispiece in Volume 1 is browned, old water-marking. Text block in a vlumes is generally quite clean, occasional foxing. Armorial ook-plate of Thomas Munro in each volume. Our research suggests that this is Major General Thomas Munro, civil and militarey officer in the service of the East India Company, book-plate contains his coat-of-arms with the family slogan, "Dread God". Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) was a British statesman, diplomat, and man of letters. Eugenia Stanhope was his daughter-in-law, widow of his son Philip. In all, a handsome old set. See photos. Size: Octavo. N° de ref. del artículo 015384

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