FIFTY YEARS OF THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION (BOOKS), ROODEPOORT IN SOUTH AFRICA

About the product 8vo; half calf; spine ornately gilt; marbled boards, edges and endpapers; pp. xxxii + 495, incl. index. A little rubbing to extremities; bookplate of the Hon. Sir James Liege Hulett on front pastedown. Very good condition. James Liege Hulett (born in Sheffield, England, 1838; died in Durban on 5 June 1928), pioneer of the Natal tea and sugar industries, was prominent in the political life of the colony both before and after responsible government, to which he had been opposed."On the death of Sir Henry Binns he was elected speaker of the Natal legislative assembly and in that capacity he attended, in 1902, the coronation ceremonies in England and was knighted."- DSAB I p. 395.