CLARION

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[ 'The Clarion', socialist periodical: E. F. Fay, A. M. Thompson, Robert Blatchford; M. Blatchford. ] Card with reproduction of photograph captioned 'Principal Writers of "The Clarion," the foremost advocate of evolutionary Socialism in England.'

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[ 'The Clarion', Manchester socialist periodical; Robert Blatchford (1851-1943), Socialist writer; Edward Francis Fay; Alexander Mattock Thompson] [ Georg Meisenbach, London photographer ]
Publication details: 
Without date or place. [ Georg Meisenbach, London. Between 1891 and 1896.]
£90.00

Dimensions of card: roughly 12 x 18 cm. Dimensions of image: 10 x 14 cm. Printed on shiny paper. Aged, spotted and worn. 'Meisenbach' in bottom right-hand corner of image. Caption above the image: 'Principal Writers of "The Clarion," the foremost advocate of evolutionary Socialism in England.' Beneath the image: 'E. F. Fay (THE BOUNDER). A.M. Thompson (DANGLE). Robert Blatchford (Nunquam). M. Blatchford (MONT BLANC).' Undated, but certainly dating from between 1891, when the Clarion was founded, and 1896, when Fay died.

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

Author: 
Joseph Edwards of Liverpool [Edward Bellamy; Tom Mann; William Morris; Leo Tolstoy; Alfred Russell Wallace]
Publication details: 
[1895.] Joseph Edwards, 7, Wesley Street, Liverpool.
£85.00

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'.

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