Chesterfield Letters Written by Phillip Stanhope to His Son Vol.2 1779

1779. leather. Letters written by the Late Right Honorable Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope, esq. Vol. 2 Date: 1779 Printed by John Mycall - Newsbury Port full Leather bound 4.7 X 7.25 Tall 620 Pages

Condition: Good to Very Good, pages with medium foxing, some pages with watermarks, spine cracked, pages tight

-America's Founding Father George Washington had a copy of this collection in his personal library .--

This collection, also called 'Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman', comprises over 400 letters written beginning in 1737 or 1738 and continuing until his son's death in 1768. The majority of the letters were written between 1746 and 1754. The letters are written in French, English, and some in Latin. They are mostly instructive letters on such subjects as geography, history, and classical literature. Later letters, written when the author had become an established minor diplomat, deal largely with political matters.

- Wikipedia The letters were first published by his son's widow Eugenia Stanhope in 1774, and the Letters to his Godson (1890). The Letters are brilliantly written, full of elegant wisdom, of keen wit, of admirable portrait-painting, of exquisite observation and deduction. - Wikipedia Link to wikipedia article on Philip D. Stanhope- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield Some quotes from the Letters: An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty. The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, you are obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause. Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.