Politics - Leeds - Scrap Album containing mainly press cuttings all relating to the election of Major Edward Feetham Coates, as unionist candidate for the Elland Division of Yorkshire, in the 1900 General Election. Folio, Morocco boards, spine defective but interior contents appear in G condition. A fascinating, comprehensive compilation of contemporaneous newspaper reports that provides an important insight into the way in which politics were conducted at the turn of the century, Coates was defeated by 1,642 votes