Letter from the Garden City Press Ltd to The Hogarth Press (18/03/1932)

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[pre-printed letterhead] THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD. LETTERPRESS· PRINTERS· BOOKBINDERS· STATIONERS  LETCHWORTH : HERTS  London Office 19-19a CURSITOR ST.  E.C.4

 

Estimate No. 
Please state number when ordering. 
LS/ALG. Ho/15647.

 

[*28 - £5*] 
[*280pp - £50*]

                       

To

                                                              

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

 

[*galleys*]

 

March 18th, 1932.

 

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

 

                                    Hogarth Letter Series No. 8 "A Letter to a Young Poet,"

                                    size Crown 8vo., to make 32 pages inclusive of 4 pages

                                    Prelims

 

COMPOSITION:       11/12 point Baskerville, 18 x 27 1/2 ems overall, in

                                    similar style to "A Letter to Madan [sic] Blanchard"             £4.17. 0.

 

            "                       11/12 point Baskerville, 19 x 29 1/2 ems overall, in

[x next to paragrah]  similar style to "A Letter on the French Pictures," to make

                                    32 pages, inclusive of 4 pages Prelims. and three

                                    blank pages                                                                          £4.17. 0.

 

[*PP*]Imposing 32 pages for Machine                                    £-.15.  0.

 

MACHINING:            32 pages from type, on paper supplied to us in size

                                    40 x 30:-

 

                                    [*P*]5000 copies                                                                  £3.10. 6.

                                    [*P*]6000 copies                                                                  £4.  0. 0.

 

                                                                                                                                    Contd.

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Subject to conditions as over.

 

 

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STANDARD CONDITIONS [11 conditions are listed]

 

 

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                                    Setting and Machining Cover, first page only, in two

                                    colours, on paper supplied to us:-

 

                                    5000 copies                                                                          £3.15. 0.

                                    6000 copies                                                                          £4.  5. 0.

 

BINDING:                  32 pages and Cover, insetting, and three-hole

                                    thread-stitching into flush Cover:-

 

                                    [*P*]2000 copies                                                                  £2.17. 0.

                                    3000 copies                                                                          £3.19. 6.

                                    4000 copies                                                                          £5.  2. 0.

                                    5000 copies                                                                          £6.  4. 6.

                                    6000 copies                                                                          £7.  7. 0.

 

Yours faithfully, | THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD. | [signature illeg.]

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 2750/561/1

Image Rights Holder: © CPI Print UK

Letter from the Garden City Press Ltd to The Hogarth Press (18/03/1932)

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

Garden City Press details the estimated price of composition and machining required to print "Letter to a Young Poet" for The Hogarth Press.

Typescript letter signed by A.L.G with handwritten annotation