1820 Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men & Manners; In which the Principles of Politeness, and the Art of Acquiring a Knowledge of the World, Are laid down in an Easy and Familiar Manner. To which are added, a selection of de la Rochefoucault's maxims.

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Rebound in quarter cloth and marbled boards, with gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated with an engraved vignette to the half title page. Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) was a British statesman, diplomat, and an acclaimed wit of his time. Despite having been an accomplished essayist and epigrammatist, Lord Chesterfield's literary reputation today derives almost entirely from Letters to His Son (1774) and Letters to His Godson (1890), books of private correspondence and paternal advice that he never intended for publication. As a handbook for worldly success in the 18th century, the Letters to His Son give perceptive advice for how a gentleman should interpret the social codes that are manners. In this volume are a selection of Lord Chesterfield's advice on manners and the improvement of character, with some of de la Rochefoucauld's maxims.