KELMSCOTT PRESS.
MORRIS, WILLIAM. News from Nowhere: or, an Epoch of Rest, being some chapters from a Utopian Romance. Hammersmith: printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, November 1892.
4to. Printed in black and red. Full-page woodcut frontispiece, facing page with full woodcut border; numerous 6- to 10-line woodcut initials. Original full vellum, spine gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, two ribbon ties. Ties partially lacking, offset from morocco bookplates to f.f.e., two leaves lightly foxed; near fine.
Provenance: Philip Hanson Hiss (green morocco bookplate); Leroy Arthur Sugarman (red morocco book label).
ONE OF 300 COPIES, the Hiss-Sugarman copy. Peterson A12.
4to. Printed in black and red. Full-page woodcut frontispiece, facing page with full woodcut border; numerous 6- to 10-line woodcut initials. Original full vellum, spine gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, two ribbon ties. Ties partially lacking, offset from morocco bookplates to f.f.e., two leaves lightly foxed; near fine.
Provenance: Philip Hanson Hiss (green morocco bookplate); Leroy Arthur Sugarman (red morocco book label).
ONE OF 300 COPIES, the Hiss-Sugarman copy. Peterson A12.
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