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News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a Utopian romance / by William Morris

Book
[1893] (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a Utopian romance / by William Morris.
Morris, William, 1834-1896

Publisher:
Hammersmith : Kelmscott Press, [1893].

Description:
305 p. : 1 ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes:
Watermark: flower; initials "WM" (William Morris).
Bound in limp white vellum; silk ties; gold lettering on spine.
Ed. of 300 copies on paper, 10 on vellum; issued 24 March 1893 (cf. Sparling).
Rubricated marginalia. 1 wood-engraved ill. by W.H. Hooper from a design by C.M. Gere (cf. Sparling). Wood-engraved (cf. Peterson) compartments, initials, and printer's device, p. [306].
"... written by William Morris, and printed by him [in Golden type (cf. Sparling)] at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith ... Middlesex, and finished on the 22nd ... November, 1892. Sold by Reeves & Turner, 196, Strand, London" -- colophon.
38041800157521 Displayed in 'Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian avant-garde' at Tate Britain, London, Sept. 12, 2012-Jan. 13, 2013; the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, June 10-Oct. 2013; and in: 'Art Turning Left' at Tate Liverpool, 8 Nov 2013 - 16 Feb 2014, open at title page. Displayed at the V&A, Gallery 128a, 'Philip Webb: 1831-1913', 7 Nov. 2015-24 May 2016.

Cited in:
Sparling. Kelmscott Press and William Morris, master-craftsman, p. 153.
Peterson. Kelmscott Press, p. 153.

Local Notes:
Library's copy printed on paper and held in solander box.

Action Note:
Collated 19960418 Complete.

Genre or Form:
Utopian literature -- England 1893.
Romances -- England 1893.
Handmade papers (fibre products) -- England 1893.
Deckle edges -- England 1893.
Watermarks -- Flower -- England 1893.
Roman (upright typeface group) -- Golden -- England 1893.
Wood engravings (prints) -- England 1893.
Wood-engraved initials (layout features) -- England 1893.
Wood-engraved compartments -- England 1893.
Wood-engraved printers' marks -- England 1893.
Rubrics -- England 1893.
Marginalia (annotations) -- England 1893.
Vellum (skin) limp bindings -- England 1893.
Ties (fasteners) -- England 1893.

Names:
Gere, Charles March, 1869-1957. illustrator
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912. wood-engraver
Kelmscott Press. printer
Reeves and Turner (Firm). bookseller

Added Title:
Epoch of rest

Reference Number:
L.883-1893




Object details

Category
Object type
TitleNews from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a Utopian romance / by William Morris
Brief description
L.883-1893, News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a Utopian romance / by William Morris. Hammersmith : Kelmscott Press, [1893].
Physical description
News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest : being some chapters from a Utopian romance / by William Morris.
Morris, William, 1834-1896

Publisher:
Hammersmith : Kelmscott Press, [1893].

Description:
305 p. : 1 ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes:
Watermark: flower; initials "WM" (William Morris).
Bound in limp white vellum; silk ties; gold lettering on spine.
Ed. of 300 copies on paper, 10 on vellum; issued 24 March 1893 (cf. Sparling).
Rubricated marginalia. 1 wood-engraved ill. by W.H. Hooper from a design by C.M. Gere (cf. Sparling). Wood-engraved (cf. Peterson) compartments, initials, and printer's device, p. [306].
"... written by William Morris, and printed by him [in Golden type (cf. Sparling)] at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith ... Middlesex, and finished on the 22nd ... November, 1892. Sold by Reeves & Turner, 196, Strand, London" -- colophon.
38041800157521 Displayed in 'Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian avant-garde' at Tate Britain, London, Sept. 12, 2012-Jan. 13, 2013; the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, June 10-Oct. 2013; and in: 'Art Turning Left' at Tate Liverpool, 8 Nov 2013 - 16 Feb 2014, open at title page. Displayed at the V&A, Gallery 128a, 'Philip Webb: 1831-1913', 7 Nov. 2015-24 May 2016.

Cited in:
Sparling. Kelmscott Press and William Morris, master-craftsman, p. 153.
Peterson. Kelmscott Press, p. 153.

Local Notes:
Library's copy printed on paper and held in solander box.

Action Note:
Collated 19960418 Complete.

Genre or Form:
Utopian literature -- England 1893.
Romances -- England 1893.
Handmade papers (fibre products) -- England 1893.
Deckle edges -- England 1893.
Watermarks -- Flower -- England 1893.
Roman (upright typeface group) -- Golden -- England 1893.
Wood engravings (prints) -- England 1893.
Wood-engraved initials (layout features) -- England 1893.
Wood-engraved compartments -- England 1893.
Wood-engraved printers' marks -- England 1893.
Rubrics -- England 1893.
Marginalia (annotations) -- England 1893.
Vellum (skin) limp bindings -- England 1893.
Ties (fasteners) -- England 1893.

Names:
Gere, Charles March, 1869-1957. illustrator
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912. wood-engraver
Kelmscott Press. printer
Reeves and Turner (Firm). bookseller

Added Title:
Epoch of rest

Reference Number:
L.883-1893


Other numbers
  • 95.c.10 - NAL Pressmark
  • 253354 - Horizon bib. number
Collection
Library number
L.883-1893

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