Letter from The Garden City Press to The Hogarth Press (30/11/1931)

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[[MS 2750/23/6]]

 

[pre-printed letterhead] THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD. LETTERPRESS PRINTERS BOOKBINDERS STATIONERS LETCHWORTH : HERTS London Office19-19a CURSITOR ST.E.C.4

 

Estimate No. LS/ALG. Ho/15160.

Please state number when ordering. Terms: Monthly Net. [stamp, national scheme for disabled men]

 

To

 

[*[3 words illeg.]*]

 

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

 

Nov. 30th, 1931.

 

 

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

 

Hogarth Letter Series No. 5. "A Letter from a Black Sheep" (Birrell), size Crown 8vo., to make 32 pages inclusive of 4 pages Prelims

 

COMPOSITION: [**] 11/12 point Baskerville. 19 x 30½ ems overall, as our specimen page herewith £5. 5. 0. Per 32 pp.

Imposing 32 pages for machine £-.15. 0.

 

MACHINING: 32 pages from type, on paper supplied to us, in size 40 x 30 :-

 

[*x*]     2000 copies    £2.  2.  0.

            3000   "           £2.11. 6.

            4000   "           £3. 1.  0.

 

Setting and Machining Cover, first page only, in two colours, on paper supplied:-

 

[*x*]     2000 copies    £2. 5.  0.

            3000   "           £2.15. 0.

            4000   "           £3.  5. 0.

 

Contd.

 

Subject to the conditions as over.

 

 

 

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STANDARD CONDITIONS [a list of 11 conditions relating to the estimate]

 

 

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BINDING: 32 pages and Cover, insetting and three-hole thread-stitching into flush cover:-

 

2000 copies  £2.17. 0.

3000      "       £3.19. 6.

4000      "       £5.  2. 0.

 

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

 

 

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.

Source: MS 2750/23/6

Image Rights Holder: © CPI Print UK

Letter from The Garden City Press to The Hogarth Press (30/11/1931)

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

The Garden City Press Ltd write to submit an estimate for Letter from a Black Sheep, standard terms and conditions are printed on the back.

Typescript document signed [unidentified signature]