History of the French Revolution
London, John Murray, 1867 (translated from the third German edition of 1865 by Walter C. Perry).
Octavo, four volumes; contemporary polished full prize calf (with the gilt crest of Adelaide's Collegiate School of St Peter on the front cover), the spines decorated in gilt, in compartments, with contrasting leather title-labels; marbled edges and endpapers; leather lightly rubbed and marked, with a library call number written lightly in white ink at the foot of each spine; 'Date Due' slip and card endpocket on the rear endpapers; overall a very attractive set (internally fine).
With the bookplate of the Collegiate School of St Peter, Stow Memorial Library, noting that the book was presented by Elizabeth E. Labatt, in memory of her brothers (C.B., S.B., and J.B. Labatt). A short article in the Adelaide 'Advertiser' for 20 December 1938 reveals that the author Katie Langloh Parker (Mrs Catherine Stow, 1856-1940) endowed the Stow Memorial Library at the school in memory of her husband, Percival Randolph Stow (1857-1937), a prominent Adelaide barrister, about a year after his death.
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