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/... By M. Maty, ...

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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:864
Physical Description:3 v. 21 cm.
Binding Note:Binding: gold-tooled green morocco by McKenzie with his ticket in both volumes. Narrow cable border roll. The flat spines are tooled to five compartments. Red lettering-pieces: 'Miscellaneous' on narrow strip at the head, the year at the base, the author in the second compartment, the volume number on tan medallion on red in the 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. Uniformly bound with Chesterfield's 'Letters ... to his son'', two volumes and Thomas Leland's 'Orations of Demosthenes', two volumes, all with McKenzie's ticket.
Bibliography:Three volumes. Engraved frontispiece and other portraits. Henry P. Herbert Stepney bookplate. A very fine copy. J2 AR1610