LORD CHESTERFIELD'S Letters 1775 4 Volume Set Fine Binding Leather Stanhope

Description: Letters written by The late Philip Dormer Stanhope Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield: To his son Philip Stanhope Esquire late envoy extraordinary at the court of Dresden Together with other pieces on various subjects Published by Regina Stanhope from the originals no in her possession Sixth edition In 4 Volumes (complete set). London: printed for J Dodsey in Pall Mall 1775 Hardcover / Original 18th century full calf with gold gilt design & lettering on original spine pieces - with date on spines 175 HISTORIC — RARE — HARD TO FIND These additions are in good condition- they have wear to the leather, bumped corners, some soiling. Interiors are clean. Volume 2 binding has become separated (see pics 9 & 10), vol 3 has part of spine title plate missing Volume 1 : 352 pp. Volume 2: 355 pp Volume 3: 376 pp Volume 4: 364 pp Please email me any questions - I have more books by the Earl Thanks ABOUT THE Earl: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield KG PC (22 September 1694—24 March 1773) was a British statesman, and a man of letters and wit. He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Lady Elizabeth Savile, and known as Lord Stanhope until the death of his father, in 1726. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to become acquainted with his aristocratic counterparts and the polite society of Continental Europe. In the course of his post-graduate tour of Europe, the death of Queen Anne and the accession of King George I (1714) opened a political career for Stanhope, and he returned to England. In the British political spectrum he was a Whig and entered government service, as a courtier to the King, through the mentorship of his relative, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, the King's favorite minister, who procured his appointment as Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. He was a selfish, calculating and contemptuous man, not naturally generous, and he practiced dissimulation till it became part of his nature; despite brilliant talents and admirable training, the life of Chesterfield cannot be pronounced a success. His social anxiety and the pains he took to become an orator already had been noticed. Horace Walpole said that he, who had heard the great orators of the time, preferred a speech of Chesterfield to that of any other orator; yet the contemporary opinion was that the Earl of Chesterfield's eloquence did not compare with that of Prime Minister Pitt (the Elder). In that regard, James Boswell reported that the poet Samuel Johnson pointedly said about the nobleman Chesterfield, "This man I thought had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords!" As a politician and statesman, his fame rests upon his short, but brilliant, administration of Ireland as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1745-46). As a courtier, the unrefined Robert Walpole worsted him at the King's court. Despite being a protector of men of letters, Chesterfield's want of heart and head in the quarrel over the dedication to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), inspired the poet Johnson to rewrite the line "Toil, envy, Want, the Patron and the Jayl" (The Vanity of Human Wishes [1749], line 160) in a letter bemoaning the conflicts of personality inherent to the patron-artist relation; Johnson rebuked Chesterfield: "is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?" Moreover, on publication of the book Letters to His Son (1774), Chesterfield's advisory correspondence with his natural son, Philip Stanhope, Johnson said that "they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master" as means for getting on in the world as a gentleman. The impoverished widow of Chesterfield s illegitimate son, Eugenia Stanhope, was the first to publish the book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), which comprises a 30-year correspondence in more than four hundred letters begun in 1737, and continuing until the death of his correspondent, Philip Stanhope, in 1768. Chesterfield wrote the greatest volume of letters in the eight-year period 1746-54; and, to refine his son's command of languages, he wrote him letters in French, English, and Latin, mostly instructive communications about geography, history, and classical literature; Chesterfield's later letters, addressed to Philip Stanhope, diplomat, are about politics. As a handbook for worldly success in the 18th century, the Letters to His Son give perceptive and nuanced advice for how a gentleman should interpret the social codes that are manners. LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS, 1775 4 Volume Set Fine Binding Leather Illustrated. Shipped with USPS Media Mail.

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