News from nowhere and selected writings and designs
By: William Morris ; ed. with an introd. by Asa Briggs ; with a supplement by Graeme Shankland on William Morris, designer.
Contributors: Briggs, Asa, 1921-; Shankland, Graeme.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Morris, William, -- 1834-1896,
Description: William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball and the utopian News from Nowhere. He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with the movement over goals and methods by the end of that decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.
Notes: "William Morris, designer" by Graeme Shankland: [32] p. includes plates of Morris' designs.

First published as: William Morris: selected writings and designs. - 1963.

Includes bibliography

Reprint. Originally published: Baltimore : Penguin Books, 1963, c1962. (Pelican books, A521)