William.Morris.John.Ball.trimmed, Edward Burne-Jones, 1888

Artwork by e. Burne-jones, april 1888, for the first book edition of william morris' a dream of john ball. Illustrates the couplet "when adam delved and eve span / who was then the gentleman?" which had international popularity in several germanic languages as an equalitarian slogan during the medieval period. Date: 1888.