Reprint 1927 with new forward by George Hicks.  8vo  Published by The Richards Press Ltd. and The Daily Herald.  235pp.  Red pictorial cloth.  Slight foxing and browning to page edges otherwise very good in a poor dust wrapper with pieces missing from front spine and rear.  Robert Tressell was the nom-de-plume of Robert Noonan, a house painter.  The “philanthropists” of the title are the workers who, in Tressell’s view, acquiesce in their own exploitation in the interests of their bosses. The novel is set in the fictional town of Mugsborough.