The Earl of Chesterfield — Letters to His Son, Volume I, Volume

New York, M. Walter Dunne, 1901. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Complete in two volumes, bound simply in brown cloth over boards, sans dust jackets, octavo hardcover format, with paper title labels to spines. Clean interiors but for previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper. Top edges gilt, rough-cut fore- and bottom-edges. Light edgewear but rubbing to, scuffing of spine heads. Bright, clean, unmarked interiors. Volume I: xvi, 1-408 pp., and with two illustrations including frontis photogravure of Dr. Johnson, a second after an original painting by J. Munsch; Volume II: xi, 1-435 pp., including a frontispiece ("Congratulations") and portrait of Lord Chesterfield, being a photogravure after the original painted portrait of him. Both tissue guards present.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good