Letters written by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope, ... Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, ... In two volumes. ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Other Associated Names: McKenzie, William, binder
Language:English
Published: Dublin E. Lynch; W. Whitestone; J. Williams; W. Colles; W. Wilson [and 7 others in Dublin] 1774
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Collection:Benjamin Iveagh
Description
Item Description:863
Physical Description:2 v. viii, 9-520 p. [2]. [1], 575 p. 21 cm.
Binding Note:Binding: gold-tooled green morocco by McKenzie with his ticket in both volumes. Narrow cabel border roll. The flat spines are tooled to five compartments. Red lettering-pieces: 'Letters' on narrow strip at the head, the year at the base, the author in te second compartment, the volume number on tan medallion on red in he fourth. The other compartments are tooled in the typical McKenzie style, almost identical with Craig's plate 55. The large tool used in the fourth and fifth compartments in McDonnell and Healy's No. 40, that in the third is their number 26. Marbled endleaves and edges. The marbling paint has penetrated beyond the edges of a few leaves, including the portrait. Uniformly bound with Chesterfield's 'Miscellaneous Works', three volumes of which are numbered 3, 4, and 5 on the spines. Thomas Leland's 'Orations of Demosthenes', two volumes, also has identical bindings, all with McKenzie's ticket. Bradshaw 1970 (four volumes).
Bibliography:Two volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Henry P. Herbert Stepney bookplate. A very fine copy. J2 AR1609.