Fifty Years of Work Without Wages
Rowley, Charles
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
|---|---|
| Binding | Hardback |
| Condition | Good copy |
| SKU | 20435 |
| Notes | Blue cloth is clean but faded with surface scratching to boards and wear including some loss of cloth, to spine ends,. Text and plates are clean and crisp. Binding is sound. |
Description
Hardback. 250pp. Second edition. Tipped in frontis photograph of a portrait of Rowley by Ford Madox Brown. There are a several plates, many tipped in on grey cartridge paper and mainly by Pre-Raphaelite artists including Ford Madox Brown, Walter Crane, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Blake, Holman Hunt, as well as a photographs of D. G. Rossetti by Lewis Carrol and works by E. Gertrude Thomson (who illustrated an editon of Alice at Carroll’s request, and poet Mathilde Blind drawn by Lucy Madox Brown (artists and wife of William Michael Rosetti). The book itself is a memoir of Manchester life as well as chapter-length memoirs of William Morris, the Rosettis, Ford Madox Brown, William Holman Hunt, etc. Rowley was the founder of the Ancoats Brotherhood that aimed to introduce art, literature and culture to the working class. Rowley’s contacts, many of whom feature in this memoir, are like a Who’s Who of Victorian writers, painters, thinkers.
