Lord Chesterfield's witticisms
Subtitle: or, The grand pantheon of genius, sentiment and taste.  Containing, besides all his lordship's genuine bons-mots, and other sallies of wit, every thing lively and spirited that stands recorded in the annals of the beau monde, with a number of valuable originals ...  To these is added, a curious poetical desert ...  With several puzzling novelties in the world of conundrum, aenigma ...  Prefixed are authentic memoirs of his lordship, with a singular, though an authentic abstract of his will.  And at the close are inserted ... his lordship's letters to his nephew ...  The whole forming a complete library of wit ...
Publisher: A. Grant [etc.
Published: 1773
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Anecdotes
Other titles: The grand pantheon of genius, sentiment and taste
Notes: The memoirs are not authentic.  Cf. Dict. nat. biog.