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We were working on an edition of News from Nowhere for Standard Ebooks, which unfortunately never saw completion. But in the process we found scans of Morris's own first edition, which is truly an artifact of beauty: https://archive.org/details/Newsfromnowhere00MorrA/page/6/mo...
Kelmscott Press was his own press, housed in his own cottage, where he produced books using a hand-powered press and hand-made paper. He even designed the ornamentals and the typeface!
Also noteworthy is the Kelmscott Chaucer, an edition of the works of Chaucer by Morris and pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones which is an extremely beautiful work of art:
News from Nowhere: https://trimread.org/articles/199