Stanhope Earl Edited (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase Good ++. Wood-engravings by Richard Shirley Smith (illustrator). First in Folio Society Edition. 201 pages. Moderately grimy light grey slipcase with moderate wear to edges and corners. Black spine and spine-junctions and black/red/white marble design boards. Brown and white illustrations. Near fine condition pages.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st thus. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine Slipcase. An excellent copy. Black cloth spine over decorated papered boards. Gilt to spine, Black and White wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Mild age-toning to slipcase. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 201 pages.

[1913]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 472pp. Volume 1 only (of 3). Chronology. Spine lightly worn at top and bottom, corners lightly rubbed, minor wrinkling on front cover, small dent in the top and bottom of the front cover as though the book has been tied with string at some time. Also known as Earl of Chesterfield. Time Period. Identified on cover as: Bradshaw (Lord Chesterfield's Letters). Edited and Annotated by John Bradshaw. Locale:. (Ideas, Correspondence, Letters).

[1913]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 953-1453pp. Volume 3 only (of 3). Chronology. Spine lightly worn at top and bottom, corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Also known as Earl of Chesterfield. Time Period. Identified on cover as: Bradshaw (Lord Chesterfield's Letters). Edited and Annotated by John Bradshaw. Locale:. (Ideas, Correspondence, Letters).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Na. Unspecified. 1893. Originally published in 1890. Description: Brown cloth with gilt floral design and titles to front and spine. Language: English. Book Condition> Fair: Light wear to lightly bumped corners and edges. Light wear and creasing to spine ends. Cracked endpapers with weakened rear hinge. Tanned pages and text block edges. DJ Condition> Na. Pages [vii], 302, [2]. Size: 18mo, 18cm by 11cm. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required.

Full Gilt-decorated Calf. Condition: Very Good. Originally published in four volumes in 1845, a later fifth volume published in 1853, engraved frontispiece portrait in each of the five volumes, top edge gilt and marbled endpapers, brown silf markers, bound in full calf with banded and gilt-decorated spines and gilt dentelle to inner borders. I, xxxvi, 429pp; II, viii, 482pp; III, xv, 452pp; IV, xx, 506pp plus 1p errata; V, xi, 544pp. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 Inches. Letters.

12mo. 8 x 5.5 inches. [vi] + 144 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt with blind stamped borders enclosing lozenge with initials S. Binder's label of Edmonds and Remnants. Some wear to extremities and scattered foxing; otherwise a very good copy. Signed letter from editor to Lord Broughton attached by sealing wax to first free endpaper. A collection mainly of letters, written 1785-1856 by William Pitt the Younger, Edmund Burke, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Macaulay and others. Philip Henry Stanhope (1805-75) a Tory MP, 1830-52 holding minor offices, was created Earl Stanhope, 1855. He is chiefly known for his cultural and historical writings. Elected FRS in 1827, he played a role in the passing of the Literary and Copyright Act of 1842, the founding of the National Portrait Gallery, 1856 and the establishment of the Historical Manuscripts Commission,1869. He was President of the Society of Antiquaries from 1846. The enclosed letter from Stanhope to Lord Broughton (John Hobhouse, 1786-1869 and Whig MP 1820-51, when created 1st Baron Broughton) draws attention to the views of the Duke of Wellington on the Duke of Marlborough (p.97-102). A Second Series of Miscellanies was published, 1872. HISTORY/THEOLOGY LETTERS HISTORY POLITICS GOVERNMENT MILITARY CORRESPONDENCE 18TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY SIGNED HISTORY/THEOLOGY.