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Letters written … to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden. Together with several other Pieces on various Subjects. Published by Mrs Eugenia Stanhope from the Originals in her Possession. In four Volumes. The eighth Edition …

London: Printed for Dodsley … 1777.

4 vols., 12mo., with the half-titles and the portrait frontispiece in volume I; a fine copy, handsomely bound in contemporary tree calf, covers gilt with a Greek-key border, spines elaborately gilt, red and green morocco labels.

£250

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Letters written … to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden. Together with several other Pieces on various Subjects. Published by Mrs Eugenia Stanhope from the Originals in her Possession. In four Volumes. The eighth Edition …

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Eighth edition, textually insignificant but a very pretty set.

Gulick 17.

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