When Adam delved and Eve span who was then the gentleman Print
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Proof impression of an etching created by Edward Burne-Jones to serve as a frontispiece for the 1st edition of William Morris's A dream of John Ball and a king's lesson (London : Reeves and Turner, 1888); the design later reworked as a wood engraving for the Kelmscott Press edition of Morris's work.
Formerly laid into library's copy of: A dream of John Ball and A king's lesson / by William Morris (Reprinted from the 'Commonweal.') ; with an illustration by Edward Burne-Jones. London : Reeves & Turner, 1888 (see PML 76883).
Inscribed "E.B.J. proof of etching appearing in 1st ed., Reeves & Turner, 1888" in an unidentified hand on verso.
Illustrating John Ball's famous quote, with the figure of Eve seated on a rock at left with a drop spindle and Adam digging with a spade at right.