Letter from the Garden City Press Ltd. to the Hogarth Press (12/04/1938)

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[[MS 2750/571/3/5]]

 

[*12000 ordering[?]*]                                     [*Order paper.*]

[*5000 U.E.[?]*]                                             [*Date for delivery*]

                                                                      [*Travelling. [1 word illeg]*]

                                                                      [*Deliveries*]

 

[*GCP to print & subsequently cut down.*]

 

[*? 6000*]

[*7500[1 word illeg]*]

 

[pre-printed letterhead] THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD  LETTERPRESS  PRINTERS BOOKBINDERS  STATIONERS  LETCHWORTH : HERTS

 

Estimate No. LS/VB 
Please state number when ordering. Ho/23591 
Terms: Monthly 5%

 

The Hogarth Press, 
52, Tavistock Square, 
LONDON, W. C. 1.

 

13th April 1938

 

We have pleasure in submitting the following specification and price for your approval. Your further instructions will receive our immediate attention.

 

[*5.7.6*]

WOOLF: "THREE GUINEAS" size Crown 8vo., 340 pages. Composing 10/13 pt. Baskerville, Quotations and Notes and References 10 pt. Solid, 18 x 30 1/2 ems overall.

 

@ Per 32 pp.                                                                         £ 5.17. 6.

Imposing for machine @ Per 32 pp.                                       15.9.                        [*74.00.*]

Author’s Corrections to date                                              16.18. 6.

 

Machining from type 340 pp. on paper supplied to Printer in size 60 x 40:-

10,000 copies                                                                     £ 53. 15. 0.                       [*53.*]

15,000     "                                                                                74.   0. 0.

 

BINDING: WOOLF "THREE GUINEAS" size Crown 8vo., 340 pp., sewn 16 pp. sections, 2 tapes, plain white ends, edges cut, 1st. and 2nd. lined, rounded and backed, bound in Sundour W.A. Quality, 20 oz. boards, blocked in gold leaf on spine only in similar style to "THE YEARS".

 

500 copies @ Per 1000                                                      £ 26. 0. 0.

1000   "       "     "      "                                                             25. 0. 0.

5000   "       "     "      "                                                             24.10. 0.

[*7500                                                                                       24. 5. 0*]

Brasses extra.

 

Yours faithfully | THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD. | L.S. [handwritten initials]

 

This estimate is given subject to the Standard Conditions of the Printing Trade as appearing on the back hereof.

 

 

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[[Page 2 is the Printer's terms and conditions.]]

Rights Statement:

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

This item has not been made available with a CC BY-NC-ND licence

Source: MS 2750/ 571/3/5

Image Rights Holder: © CPI Print UK

Letter from the Garden City Press Ltd. to the Hogarth Press (12/04/1938)

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

Archival Folder:

The Garden City Press discuss pricing and specification for the Crown 8vo. print run of Three Guineas. Includes the Standard Conditions & Recognised Customs of the Printing Trade and marginalia.

 

Typescript letter initialled by L.S with handwritten annotation