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Letters from Lord Chesterfield to His Son in French Language 1776 Leather Bound. "Choix des lettres du lord chesterfield a son fils traduietes de l"anglois - choice of letters from lord chesterfield to his son translated from english". Genuine 1776 original publication - the book is 245 years old! Good solid complete condition with leather boards having normal age related wear and pages having some age toning but no brittle. No missing or loose pages. See my 9 photos. Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope. Published by Nyon l'ainél ibraire, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais,, 1776 Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In French, early translation from English. Published by Chez Nyon l'Aine, Hardcover,in Good condition. First French Edition. Small format, contemporary calf, red spine panel with gilt lettering and decoration, xii, 317 pages followed by 5 page index. Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, KG, PC (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman, diplomat, and man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time. Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son is a compilation of 448 letters from Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), to his son, also named Philip (1732–1768), from the time the boy was five until his death. The letters contain lessons on subjects such as history and mythology in the boy’s youth, but the older he gets, the more the lessons relate to what Stanhope constantly refers to as, “the useful and necessary art of pleasing.” When the boy was eleven, Stanhope wrote that he desired he should be “as near perfection as possible” as “never were such pains taken for anybody’s education” and as his opportunities for knowledge and improvement were unparalleled. “The smallest inattention, or error in manners, the minutest inelegancy of diction, the least awkwardness in your dress and carriage, will not escape my observation,” Chesterfield wrote to his son. Understandably, Philip felt the need to keep secrets from his father. Upon his death from edema in 1768, Chesterfield discovered that Philip had been secretly married for ten years and had two sons. While Chesterfield provided for Philip’s two sons during what remained of his life and in his will, he neglected to leave Philip’s wife Eugenia anything, prompting her to publish over thirty years of his letters to his son. The collection of letters, published in 1774, attracted a great deal of notice in Britain and across the Atlantic.
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