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Edmund Rathbone was the Liverpool representative of The Century Guild. He organised the 1896 Liverpool âAesthetic Fair Loan Art Collectionâ with works by Rossetti and Whistler. And he ran The City Beautiful Wayside Café, a meeting place for Liverpoolâs artistic elite. He wrote a booklet on âHumanity and Artâ. And he was a poet: in 1907 he wrote, “