Brown cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and the front board.

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Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, was an Anglo- Irish unionist, later Irish nationalist, agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural co-operation, politician and MP. in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, author and Irish patriot. Titles included: P. C., K. C. V. O., F. R. S., M. A., Hon. D. C. L. Oxford, Hon. LL. D., Dublin,. J. P. for Co. Meath, D. L. for Co. Dublin. He was a member of the Congested Districts Board, Ireland, 1891-1918; Founder of Recess Committee and Irish Agricultural Organisational Society, Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland from 1899 to 1907, MP. for South Dublin in the House of Commons 1892-1900, Chairman of the Irish Convention, 1917-18. An adherent of Home Rule, he founded 1914 the Irish Dominion League to keep Ireland united, and in 1922 he became a member of the new Irish Free State Senate, Seanad Eireann. His works include: Ireland in the New Century and The Rural Life Problem of the United States: Notes of an Irish Observer.