Lords Halsbury (Inscribed)

First edition, first impression. Inscribed and initialled  xii, 168pp, with a single full page illustration (portrait of Lord Halsbury).  Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. Slim 8vo.  Cloth very slightly rounded at corners and spine tips.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original glossy dust wrapper, a little bumped at extreme edges and gently shelf worn.

Those who have used the serried ranks of Halsbury in the course of their professional work often regard Halsbury as a sort of mythical figure – a man overshadowed by the work that bears his name that he himself is obscured from public view.  In this volume, John Hostettler brings the man to life, with a well-rounded biography of Halsbury the barrister, the politician, the Lord Chancellor and the judge and the great jurist, not neglecting the contribution he made in later life to tumultuous events – Lloyd George’s People’s Budget, the Easter Rising in Ireland, the Taff Vale Case and the dark years overshadowed by the coming of the Great War.