An Adventure in Working-Class Education.

Mansbridge (Albert)

An Adventure in Working-Class Education.

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 good

Publication 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...moreAn 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, no fewer than 200 receiving bursaries at his death' (ODNB). It was at Mansbridge's urging that the Trust was formed, with Mansbridge for a period acting as Chairman due to Wall's ill health.'The adventure was launched with high hopes, and with the determination that labour and scholarship should no longer be divorced, for labour was in no mood to be blind, and scholarship yearned to be in contact with the fundamental facts of life, and to draw for its inspiration and glory on all the worthy activities of men' (Prologue). HIDE

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Price: £150

Subject: History

Published Date: 1920

Stock Number: 75961

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