BLATCHFORD

[ Pamphlet. ] Three Open Letters to the Bishop of Manchester on Socialism.

Author: 
Robert Blatchford [ James Moorhouse (1826-1915), Anglican Bishop of Manchester, 1886-1903 ]
Publication details: 
Without publication details or place. [ Final section with note: 'Reprinted from the "Clarion," of November 4th, 1893.'
£45.00

16pp., 12mo. Disbound without covers. Drophead title. The three letters are titled 'The Pillars of the State', 'The Common Kennel' and 'Priest and Samaritan'. A final piece, titled 'The Bishop of Manchester as a Socialist' is subtitled 'Reprinted from the "Clarion," of November 4th, 1893.' Scarce.

[ '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.'

Author: 
[ '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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