Letter from The Hogarth Press to Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd (02/04/1942)

 

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[[MS 2750/570/38]]

 

Messrs. Percy Lund Humphries & Co. 
The Country Press, 
Bradford.

 

2.4.[19]42.

 

Dear Sirs,

 

A ROOM OF ONES [sic] OWN [**]

 

We have pleasure in accepting your estimate for reprinting 2,500 copies of the above book £46. We enclose a copy of the book herewith, and are instructing the Garden City Press to send you 14 reams of F/W Ant[ique]. wove 30/40 551lbs paper, which we assume will be sufficient for this.

 

Rilke: Duino Elegies

                                                                                                                          

Will you please estimate for printing 1,000, 1,250, and 1500 copies of a demy 8vo. [octavo] book of 160 pp. Specimen pages are enclosed herewith and we shall be glad if you can kindly let us have them back when you have finished with them.

 

Yours faithfully, | for The Hogarth Press,

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Source: MS 2750/570/38

Letter from The Hogarth Press to Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd (02/04/1942)

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University of Reading, Special Collections

The Hogarth Press accepts an estimate for reprinting 2500 copies of A Room of One's Own and requests estimates for 1000, 1250, and 1500 copies of Duino Elegies.

Typescript letter unsigned