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1st US Ed. Philip Stanhope The Elements of a Polite Education Bumstead 1801 Philip Dormer Stanhope. George Gregory and Jedidiah Morse, editors. The Elements of a Polite Education. Carefully Selected from the Letters of the Late Right Honorable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son . Boston: Printed for Joseph Bumstead, 1801. First American edition. Twelvemo. 456pp. Contemporary leather, tooled in gilt to spine. Extremities rubbed and edgeworn; light scattered foxing, binding is straight and sound. Very good. RJL-00424A