Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to his Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education … to which are annexed, The Polite Philosopher … Also, Lord Burghley’s Ten Precepts to his Second Son, Robert Cecil, afterwards Earl of Salisbury
Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin Johnson, 1791. Hardcover. 16mo. vii, 160pp., with a separate title page for “The polite philosopher” (attributed to James Forrester). Bound in contemporary calf over boards. Boards are a little splayed with rubbing and wear at the edges, a few gatherings are shaken and rubbed along the..... More