"Ancoats Recreation", Ancoats Brotherhood, 1907-1919, sixteen issues of this rare illustrated prospectus, together with three 1907 4pp programmes;

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Ancoats Recreation, Ancoats Brotherhood, 1907-1919, sixteen issues of this rare illustrated prospectus, together with three 1907 4pp programmes; illustrators include Walter Crane, Arthur Gaskin, and others of the Arts & Crafts movement and Pre-Raphaelites. Some occasional foxing, one issue with a photographic plate removed, another with back cover scarred. [The Ancoats Brotherhood was a socialist workers' organisation in Manchester founded by Charles Rowley in 1878. It provided lectures, concerts and exhibitions for the working classes, and lecturers included William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, and George Bernard Shaw.] (19 items).