![]() ![]() The inscription and lettering set in narrow border of scrolling leaves were designed by Morris. HEREAFTER FOLLOWS THE BOOK IT- / SELF WHICH IS CALLED NEWS FROM / NOWHERE OR AN EPOCH OF REST & / IS WRITTEN BY WILLIAM / MORRIS THIS IS THE PICTURE OF THE OLD / HOUSE BY THE THAMES TO WHICH / THE PEOPLE OF THE STORY WENT. The inscription below (in upper case Golden type0: 'View of the entrance to Kelmscott Manor'įlagged footpath leading up to doorway of stone built house with gabled front, another wing of the house right and rose trees flanking path. 300 copies printed on paper at 2 guineas, 10 on vellum at 10 guineas.ĭetails of the wood engraving are as follows: ![]() The illustrated frontispiece, designed by Charles March Gere, shows the entrance to Kelmscott Manor, Morris's country home on the Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire border near Lechlade, after which he named his house in Hammersmith and the Press itself. It was from this later edition with a few corrections that the text for the Kelmscott Press edition was set up. ![]() In 1891, it was reprinted in book form by Reeves and Turner. Morris's 'News From Nowhere' was first published in serial form in The Commonweal, January - October 1890. ![]()
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