Author: W. H. Craig
Title: Life of Lord Chesterfield: An Account of the Ancestry, Personal Character & Public Services of the Fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Description: London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1907. First edition. Leather. A very smart first edition of this biographical work on Lord Chesterfield, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and twenty-seven plates. Collated complete. The life of Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, a British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time. Written by W. H. Craig, a British biographer and historian. With the bookplate of William Alfred Westropp Foyle, a British bookseller and businessman who co-founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 with his brother Gilbert Foyle. Previously held in the library of Christopher Foyle, a British philanthropist and owner of Foyle's bookshop. Bound by J. & E. Bumpus Ltd. Bound in full calf. Externally, very smart with minor wear and light fading to the spine. The odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the extremities. Bound by J. & E. Bumpus Ltd. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .

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