Author: Rowley, Charles (1839-1933)
Title: Fifty years of work without wages : (laborare est orare)
Description: London. New York : Hodder and Stoughton 1911. 2nd edition. Uncommon in a dust-wrapper. Very good cloth copy in a poor. somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Frontispiece is accompanied by a guard sheet. Scattered foxing throughout. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: x. 250 pages. [4] pages. 1 leaf frontispiece. illustrations. plates. portraits 24 cm. Contents: The hungry forties.--The fighting fifties.--The maturing sixties.--A municipal era.--A municipal school of art.--Frederic Shields.--Ford Madox Brown.--The Rossettis.--William Morris.--Holman Hunt.--Prince Kropotkin and a group of refugees.--Some friends at home.--Frieds abroad.--Recreation in Ancoats.--The Brotherhood proper.--An education committee.--The round table.--An amateur lecturer. Subjects: Ancoats Brotherhood. Manchester. Art England. Pre-Raphaelitism England. Art. Pre-Raphaelitism. Social conditions. Art England. Art. British 19th century. Manchester (England) Social conditions. Genre: Illustrated.

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