Letter from Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd, to The Hogarth Press (31/07/1941)

 

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[[MS 2750/572/39]]

 

AH/LG.

 

[pre-printed letterhead] lund humphries  Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd . The County Press Bradford  Printers Publishers Binders

 

The Hogarth Press, 
Pixmore Avenue, 
LETCHWORTH, 
Herts.

 

Bradford, 31 July 1941.

 

Dear Sirs,

 

Woolf: "To the Lighthouse"

 

We acknowledge with thanks your letter of July 28th, and have pleasure in enclosing our official estimate for reprinting 1,000 copies - to be delivered in flat sheets.

 

In thanking you for a specimen copy of this Publication, we would assure you of our sustained interest in the proposition mentioned in your letter of July 23rd, and we are quite prepared to undertake a job of direct printing for you when more detailed instructions are forthcoming.

 

With compliments, we are, | Yours faithfully, | PERCY LUND, HUMPHRIES & CO. LTD., | AH [signature]

 

ENCLOSURE

 

 

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[pre-printed letterhead] lund humphries estimate Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd . The County Press Bradford  Printers Publishers Binders

 

135/78 
EL/LG.

 

The Hogarth Press, 
Pixmore Avenue, 
LETCHWORTH, 
Herts.

 

July 31st, 1941.

 

SPECIFICATION - Reprints of Books "To the Lighthouse" consisting of 320 pages, printed by Replika in black ink.

 

BINDING      Delivered in flat sheets.

 

SIZE             6 7/8" x 4 1/2" upright.

 

MATERIAL   As sample previously submitted.

 

QUANTITY 1,000    £72. 0. 0.

 

 

TERMS NET MONTHLY CARRIAGE PAID GOODS TO LETCHWORTH.

 

This Estimate is based on the price of materials ruling on the date given above, and is subject to revision. This Estimate is given subject to the Standard Conditions of the Printing Trade as issued by the British Federation of Master Printers (which are overleaf), and such conditions shall be deemed to be embodied in any contract arising out of this estimate and the acceptance thereof, unless otherwise provided,

 

Yours faithfully, | Percy Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd | [illeg. signature]

 

 

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Standard Conditions and Recognised Customs of the Printing Trade as issued by the British Federation of Master Printers [a list of 13 conditions and customs]

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Reproduced with permission from the copyright holder Lund Humphries, courtesy of Penguin Random House UK Archive and Library, owner of the Hogarth Press collection at the University of Reading Special Collections.

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Source: MS 2750/572/39

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Letter from Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd, to The Hogarth Press (31/07/1941)

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University of Reading, Special Collections

Percy Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd include the estimate for reprinting 1,000 copies of To the Lighthouse with specifications for binding, sizing, material, and quantity. Includes standard conditions and recognised customs of the printing trade. Enclosure of a specimen copy referenced [Enclosure not found at the time of cataloguing]

Typescript letter initialled by A. H