After attending a Socialist League meeting and returning home to the London suburb of Hammersmith, narrator William Guest awakens the next day to find himself in the twenty-first century. The Kelmscott Press edition, printed in 1892 and reproduced in this facsimile edition, was a triumph of book design and making.

News from Nowhere caused a stir with its unusual blend of utopian socialism and science fiction when it was first published in instalments in William Morris's socialist newspaper The Commonweal in 1890.

Gere for Morris's novel News From Nowhere, 1892. Images: William Morris' home Kelmscott Manor and the frontispiece woodcut illustration design by C.M. The photograph to the right shows Kelmscott Manor as it appears today. Gere for the Kelmscott Press edition of News from Nowhere. The image above shows a woodcut designed by C. These images depict Kelmscott Manor, the beloved country home that Morris preserved for his family and posterity.

Today organizations such as the SPAB, the British National Trust, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States have adopted Morris's ideas and teach practices that help preserve historic structures for the benefit of future generations. A late sixteenth-century farmhouse in Oxfordshire, Kelmscott Manor had survived largely unchanged from its original state, embodying Morris's ideal of authentic craftsmanship. Morris lived his vision by purchasing and preserving his beloved summer home, Kelmscott Manor. He coined the name, 'Anti-Scrape Society' for the SPAB, a humorous shorthand that embodied his philosophy of honoring the artisans who constructed old buildings by preserving their work without alteration.

Morris championed an alternative building preservation model based on retaining all surviving building fabric, no matter how flawed by the passage of time, while employing minimal, non-intrusive reinforcement of the existing infrastructure to prevent future damage.

While the Gothic Revival drew renewed interest to the medieval aesthetic, some architects sought to restore old buildings to an ideal state by removing original detail and adding new construction- trends Ruskin and Morris both found troubling. Ruskin and others celebrated the architecture of the Middle Ages, but were disturbed by elements of the Gothic Revival, a style popular throughout most of the nineteenth century. Morris's vision for preserving historic buildings owed much to the influence of the noted art critic, John Ruskin.

His love of architecture and disdain for the kind of building restoration he saw on prominent landmarks inspired him to found the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) in 1877. He often attempted to galvanize public opinion for important causes by forming advocacy groups.

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