Prospectus, with sample pages carrying a complete calendar, for 'The Labour Annual Calendar: 1896. Edited by Joseph Edwards. [...] Portraits of Nine Prominent Living Socialists [...]'.

The calendar proper (clear and complete on aged paper) consists of 12 unpaginated 8vo pages, with photographs and some facsimiles of handwriting on the rectos and the calendar itself, with memorable radical dates, on the versos. Photographs of Edward Bellamy, 'Principal Writers of "The Clarion" ', Tom Mann, William Morris, and Alfred Russel [sic] Wallace, and Count Leo Tolstoy. The calendar is encased in a loose 8vo bifolium, with four unpaginated printed pages. It is titled 'The Labour Annual Calendar: 1896. Edited by Joseph Edwards'. Small engraving (7 x 5 cm) by 'West' in top left-hand corner of first page, entitled 'Light and Life', showing a worker, a herald with a trumpet and a sunrise. This outer bifolium worn and torn, with loss to text on the second leaf, which carries the contents of the 1895 calendar on its recto and a series of 'Announcements' on the reverse. Contents of the 1896 calendar on the reverse of the first leaf.