Men of the Times : Old colonists of the Cape Colony and the Orange River Colony (1906)

The Transvaal Publishing Company, printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1906, hardcover, coloured frontis,profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. many with tissue guards, some full page, 645 pages, folio sized, 26.7 cms x 34 cms x 4.5 cms, book has been re-cased with new endpapers, catalogue numbers to base of spine & blank page facing Introductory remarks, overall condition : very good.

The book consists of hundreds of photographs and biographies of prominent men in the Cape and Orange River Colonies> Sections on Constantia, The Diamond Industry, various industries, ie, Ostrich Feathers, Brewing, A Glimpse of the 'Hill", Claremont, CT, Cecil John Rhodes, The Cape Legislature, The Wine Industry & individual wine farms,   The Capture of the Cape 1806, Abe Bailey, Paul Kruger, Reform Committee, Christian de Wet, The Orange River colony, its prominent pioneers & residents,  & others. 

ALTOGETHER AN AUTHORITATIVE SURVEY OF THE GOOD & THE GREAT IN THESE TWO SOUTH AFRICAN COLONIES AT A PARTICULAR MOMENT IN HISTORY, THE 'RECONSTRUCTION' FOLLOWING THE ANGLO-BOER WAR.