Book - Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son
Letters Written by the Late Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son; with some Account of his Life. In three volumes ... First complete American Edition. New-York: Published by E. Duyckinck, Smith and Forman, T.A. Reynolds, and S.A. Burtus. 1813.
1813 (Date published)
Letters Written by the Late Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son; with some Account of his Life. In three volumes ... First complete American Edition. New-York: Published by E. Duyckinck, Smith and Forman, T.A. Reynolds, and S.A. Burtus. 1813.
12mo (142 x 89mm) in three volumes, each with engraved frontispiece and title-page, pp. [4], xv, [1], 387, [1]; [4], 391, [1]; [4], 380. Bound in contemporary mottled sheep, spines gilt in compartments with orange calf labels. Each volume has the early ink signature and shelf mark of Augustus F. Hand, as well as an early ink inscription and shelf mark of Daniel Hand: "Presented to the Hand Academy by Mr. Daniel Hand".
An 1813 American edition of the Earl of Chesterfield's letters to his son, first published in 1774 in England. Of the letters, Samuel Johnson famously quipped that they "teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master". It was well-known and widely read through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This copy was first owned by Augustus Hand, then gifted by his brother Daniel Hand to the Hand Academy in Madison, CT. Sadly, they took very good care of this copy, and we have no annotations through which to glean their thoughts on the contents.
12mo (142 x 89mm) in three volumes, each with engraved frontispiece and title-page, pp. [4], xv, [1], 387, [1]; [4], 391, [1]; [4], 380. Bound in contemporary mottled sheep, spines gilt in compartments with orange calf labels. Each volume has the early ink signature and shelf mark of Augustus F. Hand, as well as an early ink inscription and shelf mark of Daniel Hand: "Presented to the Hand Academy by Mr. Daniel Hand".
An 1813 American edition of the Earl of Chesterfield's letters to his son, first published in 1774 in England. Of the letters, Samuel Johnson famously quipped that they "teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master". It was well-known and widely read through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This copy was first owned by Augustus Hand, then gifted by his brother Daniel Hand to the Hand Academy in Madison, CT. Sadly, they took very good care of this copy, and we have no annotations through which to glean their thoughts on the contents.
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