Historical Records of Australia. Series I. Governors' Despatches to and from England. Volume VIII. July, 1813 - December, 1815
Sydney, The Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1916.
Octavo, xx (last blank), 739 pages.
Original half calf and cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; leather a little sunned and scuffed, with slight surface loss; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy.
Provenance: 'Senator W.H. Story' is stamped in gilt on the front cover. Adelaide-born William Harrison Story (1857-1924) 'was educated at state schools before becoming a stonemason and bricklayer. He served as President of the Operative Masons and Bricklayers Society and the Adelaide Trades and Labour Council, and was mayor of the Town of Kensington and Norwood from 1901 to 1902. In 1903, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator from South Australia. In the 1916 Labor split, he was one of several Labor parliamentarians who joined Prime Minister Billy Hughes in leaving the Labor Party over the issue of conscription, eventually joining with the Commonwealth Liberal Party to form the Nationalist Party. Story transferred to the House of Representatives in 1917, winning the seat of Boothby as a Nationalist. He was the first South Australian to have served in both houses of federal parliament. He held the seat until 1922' (Wikipedia). The book has the later ownership signature of Don Dunstan on the verso of an initial blank. Donald Allan Dunstan (1926-1999) qualified as a lawyer; 'he entered politics as the Member for Norwood in 1953 at age 26, became leader of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party in 1967, and was Premier of South Australia between June 1967 and April 1968, and again between June 1970 and February 1979' (Wikipedia).
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