Letter from The Hogarth Press to T.J.S. Guildford and Co Ltd (17/05/1923)

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[[MS 2750/93/27]]

 

Messrs T J S Guilford and Co 
47 London Road 
Kingston-on-Thames

 

17/5/[19]23

 

Dear Sirs

 

With reference to the 300 sheets of PHAROS AND PHARILLON which we are sending you and of which we only require 150 copies bound up at present, we wish to have the copies bound in a slightly different manner from the previous 600 which you did for us.

 

We shall want the same cover paper and the same linen back;

 

but the cover paper should be extended further towards the hinge of the book so that less of the linen back is exposed; also the label on the hinge of the book should be raised 3/8". We are enclosing a book which is an example of exactly the alterations we require: and we should be obliged if you would submit to us a dummy copy.

 

We should be very grateful if you could see your way to completing the work speedily as the books are needed urgently.

 

Yours faithfully | THE HOGARTH PRESS

 

[[*P.S. We should also like the margins above and below the rule at the top, and below the rule at the bottom of the hinge label to be reduced to the same  width as the margins on the hinge label of the enclosed book.*]]

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Reproduced with permission from Penguin Random House  UK archive and library, with thanks to the Society of Authors

Source: MS 2750/93/27

Letter from The Hogarth Press to T.J.S. Guildford and Co Ltd (17/05/1923)

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

The Hogarth press writes in regard to the binding of Pharos and Pharillon, he requests alterations to the binding of which an example he encloses. There are handwritten annotations by Leonard Woolf at the base of the letter, instructing on margins within the book.

Typescript letter unsigned