Letter from the Garden City Press Ltd to The Hogarth Press (19/11/1941)

 

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[[MS 2750/564/18]]

 

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

Estimate No.

Please state number when ordering.

 

LS/BS 
Ho/1533

 

Messrs. The Hogarth Press, 
LETCHWORTH.

 

[*[2 characters illeg.] 0

45 80/200

67 1/2*]

 

17th November , 1941.

 

Uniform Edition "MRS. DALLOWAY" Size X 9/16 X 7. 256pp. inclusive of 4pp.prelims. Composing 11/12 pt. Baskerville 20 x 32 1/2 ems overall, as our specimen page herewith.

 

At  £ 7.18. 6 per 32pp

 

Imposing for machine

 

At  1. 1. 0 per 32pp.

 

It ismost [sic] probable that this will fall 4pp. short

 

Machining 2000 copies 256pp. from type on paper supplied to printer in size 40 x 30.

 

2000 copies  25.15. 0

 

[*Accepted 21/11/41*]

 

Supplying pure M.F. Printing paper in substance 81 1/2 lb. 500's 30 1/2 x 44

 

2000 copies  46.15. 0

256pp.

 

[*Accept [3 words illeg.] when they send 3 copies of Est[imate]. folded in 32 page sections*]

 

 [*if had in 32 p. sections w[oul]d save about £1.15.0 per 1000 on binding costs.*]

 

Paper offered subject to intermediate sale.

 

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

 

 

 

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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 2750/564/18

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Letter from the Garden City Press Ltd to The Hogarth Press (19/11/1941)

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

Archival Folder:

The Garden City Press submit an estimate for the reprinting of Mrs Dalloway uniform edition of 256 pages.

Typescript letter initialled L.S with handwritten annotation and calculations