Fifty years of work without wages : (laborare est orare)
Memoir by Charles Rowley, the Manchester reformer who ran the Ancoats Brotherhood, published in London and New York in 1912 for readers interested in art, social reform and the Pre-Raphaelite circle he knew. The plates mix halftone reproductions of Ford Madox Brown's Manchester Town Hall murals and allegorical figure panels with pen-and-ink portrait sketches of bearded Victorian men and dark tonal engravings after Blake, useful for crowded narrative compositions, single standing figures and high-contrast night scenes.
