LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM LOWNDES OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1782-1822 by Ravenel, [Harriott Horry], Mrs. St. Julien - 1901

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [printed by] the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1901. [x], 257 pages, plus frontispiece and one plate. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. [19.4 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with faint evidence of removed call number at base of spine. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title and one other leaf, and number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other page. Else a very good copy. Penciled ownership inscription of North Carolina collector, Forster A. Sondley, on the front free endpaper in pencil. FIRST EDITION. William Lowndes was an influential member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1811 to 1822.