[Savile (George, Marquess of Halifax)] The Lady's New-years Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter, second edition, engraved frontispiece depicting a young girl reading the work, near contemporary ink signatures of Mary Isham & Mary Brooke to title and earlier ones "Jane Isham her Booke 1706" (?presumably Mary's mother) to endpapers, frontispiece with faint ink stain, lightly browned, G6 lacking lower outer corner not affecting text, contemporary sprinkled calf, a little rubbed, slight wear to head of spine, [Heltzel 726; Wing H305], 12mo, for Matt. Gillyflower...and James Partridge, 1688.

⁂ Written by Halifax for the benefit of his daughter Elizabeth, later the mother of the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, who in turn wrote his famous Letters to his Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, published in 1774. First published without the author's permission due to a corrupt scrivener selling the manuscript, this edition has been corrected from the original and a frontispiece added. ESTC records 6 UK copies and 5 in America.