Letter from The Garden City Press Ltd to the Hogarth Press (14/01/1942)

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

London Office: Cliffords Inn, Fleet Street, E.C.4

 

Estimate No. Please state number when ordering. LS/BS Ho/1618

 

Messrs, The Hogarth Press, 
LETCHWORTH

 

14th January 1942.

 

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

 

Virginia Woolf "THE DEATH OF THE MOTH and OTHER ESSAYS" Size Demy 8vo.  to make approximately 160pp.  inclusive of 8pp.  prelims.

 

Composing 11pt. Baskerville solid, 25 x 42 ems overall, quotations and prose in 10pt.  footnotes in 8pt.  Chapters to run on.

 

                        At                                            £14.15.0        per 32pp.

 

machining 160pp.  from type on paper supplied to printer in size 35 x 45.

 

                        5000 copies                          33.15.0

per 500 run on at same time                         2.  4.0

 

Bookjacket for a demy 8vo [Octavo].  volume, printed in one colour on spine, front and blurb on both flaps, from type and supplying antique cover paper in substance 40 lb. 18 x 23.

 

                        5000 copies                          16.18.6         approximate

per 500 run on at same time                         1.  8.0

 

BINDING: "THE DEATH OF THE MOTH & OTHER ESSAYS" Size Demy 8vo.  160pp.  sewn 16pp.  sections, plain white ends, edges cut, 1st and 2nd lined, rounded and backed, bound in "Reliance" or Empire cloth, equal 12 oz. boards, blocked one run of ink on spine and front.  Jacketted.

 

1000 copies                                                    3.12.0  per 100

2000    "                                                           3.11.0    "     "

3000    "                                                           3.10.6    "     "

4000    "                                                           3.10.6    "     "

5000    "                                                           3.10.0    "     "

 

Brasses extra.

 

 

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Standard Conditions & Recognised Customs of the Printing Trade [a printed list of 13 conditions relating to the estimate]

 

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

 

[*29 R[ea]ms Straw Ant Wove 5760*]

[*25 R[ea]ms Pale Cream Int Art 5000*]

 

[*6/-

£300 per 1000

                 1500

                  850

                  600*]

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Letter from The Garden City Press Ltd to the Hogarth Press (14/01/1942)

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University of Reading, Special Collections

The Garden City Press Ltd details the specification and approval cost of printing copies of Virginia Woolf's The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, Pricing given in options of 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, and 5000 copies.

Typescript letter initialled by L.S