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News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance

Title
News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance / by William Morris.
Published
[Hammersmith, England] : [Kelmscott Press], [1892]
Physical Description
[6], 305, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is one of 10 on vellum. Bound in vellum with silk ties.
Notes
Colophon: This book, News from Nowhere, or an Epoch of Rest, was written by William Morris, and printed by him at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the County of Middlesex, and finished on the 22nd day of November, 1892. Sold by Reeves & Turner, 196, Strand, London. [Printer's device]
The woodcut frontispiece is engraved by W.H. Hooper from a design by C.M. Gere.
Marginal notes in red.
Frontispiece depicts Morris's home, Kelmscott Manor, in Oxfordshire.
300 paper copies. 10 vellum copies.
Variant and related titles
News from nowhere
Epoch of rest
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Peterson, W.S. Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press A12
Also listed under
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver.
Gere, Charles M. (Charles March), 1869-1957, ill.
Morris, William, 1834-1896, printer.
Kelmscott Press.
BAC PR5079 .N48 1892 Exhibited in: Making History: Antiquaries in Britain (Yale Center for British Art, February 2, 2012-May 27, 2012)
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