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Reprint. Soft cover print portfolio, with silk ribbon ties, 4to (12 x 17 inches) the illustrated wraps in brown on brown craft paper, featuring a facsimile of the original 1896 publication, repeated as frontispiece on cream colored stock. Printed in black and red, with black and white poster-sized illustrations. The removable enclosures are tied together with a (replacement) red silk ribbon. Includes all 14 full page black and white reproductions of the engravings of Walter Crane done between 1886 and 1896. Also includes Crane's accompanying poems: "Song For Labour Day," "The Workers' Maypole," "The Craftsmens' Dream," "In Memory of the Paris Commune, 1891," "A Merry Christmas," "The Donkey and The Common, a Fable." **CONDITION: Wraps with some staining, soiling and small chips. Some repair to inner wraps reinforcing ribbon holes. Contents are generally clean with the occasional remnant of blue tack on the verso of a couple, or minor foxing at page margins. Originally, this portfolio were presented as "a souvenir" of the International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress taking place in London during the summer of 1896. Walter Crane also designed delegate cards for the participants, including a British delegation of 476 : (159 from trade unions, 26 from trades councils, 5 from women's organisations, plus 121 from The Social Democratic Federation, 117 from the Independent Labour Party, and 3 from the Fabian Society. This congress followed the foundation of the Second International (TUC) "...these Cartoons were printed for Walter Crane by the Twentieth Century Press at 37A Clerkenwell Green. They are of historic interest as period pieces when high-minded Socialism was taken up by the followers of William Morris. Prominent among them was Walter Crane (1845-1916), first Master of the Art Worker's Guild, an ardent Guild-Socialist and Positivist..." (J. Betjeman, foreword) The Journeyman Press is was located at the site of the Marx Memorial Library. British artist Walter Crane, (1845-1915) now known best perhaps for his book illustration and decorative painted tiles, was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was the most politically-active member of this artistic circle. These images would be great to frame.
Ref: MARX 9162
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