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Chants of Labour. A Song Book of the People.
1888192053London: Swan Sonnenschein 1888. First edition of this compilation of socialist songs including ironic settings to the National Anthem and "Rule Britannia". It was extremely popular and went through numerous editions into the 20th century. "There was a long labour tradition of romantic art exemplified best by the Chartist poetry and lyrics. Carpenter quite particularly drew from that tradition. Socialist romanticism even communist romanticism survived between the wars in poetry by the likes of Carpenter and Auden" Hall p. 171. World Cat records only one copy in the US at the Huntington and six in the UK: the British Library National Library of Scotland and the universities of Edinburgh London Oxford and Warwick. Quarto. Frontispiece illustrated title page head- and tailpieces historiated initials musical notation throughout. Original buff cloth spine lettered in black front cover lettered and illustrated in red brownish red endpapers Twentieth-century bookplate of one Joseph King his pencil ownership signature on the half-title. Cloth mottled spine toned split at head of rear joint edges foxed contents clean: a very good copy. Duncan Hall A Pleasant Change From Politics: Music and the British Labour Movement Between the Wars 2001. hardcover
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