Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, fourth Earl of. Letters . . . to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in Volume 1. [4], vii, [1], 568; [4], 606, [1] pages, including half-titles and errata leaf at end of Volume 2. 2 volumes. 4to, 311x247 mm, dark green 1/4 morocco by Lloyd, spines faded to brown, few stains on Volume 1 covers; light offsetting from portrait onto title, contents otherwise generally clean; top edges gilt, others uncut. wide-margined set. London: J. Dodsley, 1774

Additional Details

first edition. Second state of page 55 in Volume 1, with "qui auroit" on line 16. Rothschild 596.