Lectures on the French Revolution by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Action, Lod Acton, edited by J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence. The lectures were delivered at Cambridge between 1895 and 1899. This copy is a 1916 reprint of the 1910 first edition. . It is half-bound in red leather and red boards with the gilt crest of Christ's Hospital school on the front board. Binding firm. Association copy: on the inside front board is a prize label: the prize awarded to Russell Meiggs in 1918. (Meiggs was subsequently Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History (and Prefect of the College 1945- 1969) at Balliol College, Oxford from 1939 to 1970. He has been described as "one of the last and certainly one of the greatest of the old-style Oxford dons" and as 'the most revered, and the most beloved, tutor of his generation".) Red marbled pastedowns, free endpapers and page edges. The spine has five raised bands and gilt lettering. There is some scuffing to the edges and to the top and bottom of spine ends. Al