SAUL SOLOMON. The Member for Cape Town. By W.E. Gladstone Solomon

Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1948. Hard cover, 362 pages. The cover is worn. Inscription, 2 and a half lines, upside down in front. Slight crack appearing at p.54 and crack in front. The text is clean. Shipping to anywhere in SA is R20. 

The biography of Saul Solomon who from 1854 until his death in 1892 was intimately involved in South African politics. The South African federation, native wars, church and state and struggle for constitutional government and relations with British government were all overseen by this man.

Black-and-white Illustrated frontispiece, showing Saul Solomon in his place in the Cape House of Assembly, from a painting by William Howard Schroeder. The text is illustrated with seven black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip.