The American Chesterfield, or, Way to wealth, honour, and distinction : being selections from the letters of Lord Chesterfield to his son and extracts from other eminent authors, on the subject of politeness : with alterations and additions suited to the youth of the United States / by a member of the Philadelphia Bar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Etiquette.

Genre:

Advertisements -- United States -- Philadephia -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

286 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 13 cm

Manufacture:

[Philadelphia] : Stereotyped by J. Howe.

Other Title:

Way to wealth, honour, and distinction

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Published by John Grigg, 1828.

Notes:

Frontispiece signed: H. Howard R.A. delt. Engraved on steel by G.B. Ellis. Added engraved t.p. signed: Corbould [and] Ellis.

Stereotyper's name from verso t.p.

Copyright 1827 by John Grigg.

Includes: (p. [224]-231) "Dr. Watts' Advice to a young man, on his entrance into the world"; (p. [232]-238) "Ten precepts given by William Lord Burleigh ... to his son Robert Cecil ... "; and (p. [239]-286) John Trusler's "The honours of the table" and "The art of carving."

Publisher's advertisements on two unnumbered pages following text.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.

Cited in:

Shoemaker, 31953

Related Work:

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773. Letters to his son.

Contains:

Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598. Ten precepts.

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Advice to a young man.

Trusler, John, 1735-1820. Honours of the table.

Trusler, John, 1735-1820. Art of carving.

OCLC:

2169075