Letters of Philip Dormer Fourth Earl of Chesterfield to his godson and successor. now first edited from the originals, with a memoir of Lord Chesterfield.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield KG, PC, MP (1694-1773)
Category
Books
Date
1890
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3060809
Summary
Bibliographic description
xci, 320p., plates. ill.. port.. facs.. 4to. [29cm]. Provenance: Nineteenth-century book label, lettered "R. Crewe" [i.e. Richard Fynderne Harpur Crewe (1880-1921), son of Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Bt, and Isabel Adderley]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half vellum, blue leather covered boards; gold-tooled spine, borders and upper board; gold-tooled armorial on left board: "Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense. A Deo Et Rege". Covered in buff cloth home-made dust jacket, edges sewn together on inside boards.
Makers and roles
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield KG, PC, MP (1694-1773) Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, DCL, (1831-1890)