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Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle

VARLEY, afterwards BANKS, Isabella. · 1893 · Griffith & Farran · 13 pictures

A late-Victorian novel of industrial unrest by Isabella Banks, issued in London by Griffith & Farran in 1893 for the general circulating-library reader. The plates are small wood-engraved flower vignettes set as chapter ornaments \u2014 dog rose with hips, anemone, fringed pink, forget-me-nots among grasses \u2014 each an isolated sprig in grey-black line on cream, usable as spot art, endpaper repeats or drop-in headpieces.

British Library · HMNTS 012634.m.14. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)