Price: £150
Subject: History
Published Date: 1920
Stock Number: 75961
(Your basket is currently empty)Being the Story of the Workers' Educational Association, 1903-1915.
Description: FIRST EDITION, tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece after Rothenstein drawing and 12 further plates, largely photographic reproductions, pp. xx, 73, 8vo, contemporary parchment over boards, the spine a little creased, spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt, others roughtrimmed, marbled endpapers, red page-marker, original ffep with a few damp patches, inscribed by the author (see below), later gift inscription to verso of flyleaf presenting book to the Berks Bucks and Oxon District of the WEA, very goodPublication Details: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920
Notes: An excellent association copy, inscribed 'To Thomas Wall from his friend the Author June 1 1920'. 'Sausage entrepreneur and philanthropist' (ODNB) Thomas Wall was a supporter of the Adult School Movement and was thus naturally drawn to the ideals of the Workers' Educational Association, of which Mansbridge was founder; the two met at a gathering for the association and 'ever after he was a close friend' (Mansbridge, 'Fellow Men: A Gallery Of England 1876-1946'). Wall's 'most spectacular benefaction was the Thomas Wall Trust, endowed with £200,000 to support students at university and college...more
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