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Additional authors

1. Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
2. Lane, Joseph, 1851-1920
3. Morris, William, 1834-1896
4. Socialist League (Great Britain : 1885), publisher.

Description

1. 15 pages; 23 cm

Subject

1. Political poetry
2. Poetry
3. Socialism > Poetry

Genre/Form

1. Political poetry.
2. Poetry.

Contents

1. The day is coming -- The voice of toil -- All for the cause -- No master -- The march of the workers -- The message of the March wind.

Call number

1. Rare Books 18-5580

Note

1. The headpiece is a vignette, Walter Crane's design for "The Socialist League."
2. "Printed and published by W. Morris and J. Lane at 27 Farringdon St., London, E.C." -- Publisher's advertisement on final page.
3. Barker & Collins call this "a chimaera, with a false wrapper, intended to 'improve' a genuine pamphlet."
4. An expanded version was published in the same year, with an additional song, "Down among the dead men."

Binding (note)

1. Bound in half leather, with patterned paper (that resembles a Morris & Co. pattern) boards, pastedown and free end-leaves. Stamped, "Bound by Zaehnsdorf."

Author

1. Morris, William, 1834-1896.

Title

1. Chants for socialists / by William Morris.

Imprint

1. London : The Socialist League Office, 1885.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Binding

1. Bound in half leather, with patterned paper (that resembles a Morris & Co. pattern) boards, pastedown and free end-leaves. Stamped, "Bound by Zaehnsdorf." NN

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. Crane, Walter, 1845-1915, illustrator.
2. Lane, Joseph, 1851-1920, printer, publisher.
3. Morris, William, 1834-1896, printer, publisher.
4. Socialist League (Great Britain : 1885), publisher.

LCCN

1. 96204355

Research call number

1. Rare Books 18-5580