Kelmscott Press.- Ephemera.- Ancoats Brotherhood. When Adam Delved and Eve Span... 4pp., one of 250 copies, with wood-engraved frontispiece to 'John Ball' (When Adam Delved...) by Burne-Jones on first page and extracts from Tennyson and Ruskin, wood-engraved initials, borders & press device designed by William Morris, [Peterson D5], Kelmscott Press, March 1894-March 1895; with a small collection of other ephemera from the press, comprising: List, 4pp., edges soiled and folded in, December 1892; List, 8pp., one of 750 copies, July 2nd 1894; Announcement of Enlargement of Edition of Chaucer's 'Works', 4pp., printed on first page only, November 14th, 1894; Announcement of Bindings of Chaucer's Works, 2pp. printed on recto only, one of 600 copies, [26 February 1896]; Envelope, c.100 x 225mm., address of press printed in black at head, 1/2d stamp in red in top right corner; some with wood-engraved initials, occasional spotting or soiling, a few creases, [Peterson C3, C23, C27, C40 &D2.5], Kelmscott Press (6)

⁂ The Ancoats Brotherhood was a socialist workers' organization in Manchester founded by Charles Rowley in 1878. It provided lectures, concerts and exhibitions for the working classes and lecturers included William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Peter Kropotkin and George Bernard Shaw.