This leaflet advertises the Ancoats Brotherhood, Manchester, printed by the Kelmscott Press. The Ancoats Brotherhood was founded by Charles Rowley in 1882 as the Ancoats Recreation Committee. In 1889, it was reformed as the Ancoats Brotherhood, offering a year-long programme of lectures, musical evenings, concerts, dances, walks, art exhibitions, and social gatherings. Notable guests included William Morris, Walter Crane, and George Bernard Shaw. Morris lectured there annually until 1894.
The leaflet features extracts from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and John Ruskin, along with wood-engraved initials, borders, and a press device designed by Morris. It includes the illustration When Adam Delved and Eve Span, designed by Edward Burne-Jones with lettering by Morris. This image first appeared as an etched frontispiece in the 1888 Reeves & Turner edition of Morris’s A Dream of John Ball (see K6), which was originally serialized in The Commonweal in 1887.
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