Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, fourth Earl of. Letters . . . to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in Volume 1 (toned, offsetting onto title). Half-titles; errata leaf at end of Volume 2. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary tree calf, rebacked retaining most of darkened and worn original backstrips, with modern leather lettering pieces, endpapers renewed; foxing and stains on opening leaves, occasional heavy foxing elsewhere. London: J. Dodsley, 1774

Additional Details

First edition. First state of page 55 in Volume 1, with "quia uroit" on line 16. Rothschild 596.