Letter from The Garden City Press Ltd. to The Hogarth Press (01/05/1940) [2]

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[[MS 2750/2/2/8]]

 

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

Estimate No. Please state number when ordering LS/ VB HO/ 25821

Terms: Usual

 

The Hogarth Press, 
37 Mecklenburgh Square, 
LONDON, WC.1.

1st May 1940

 

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

 

ALI: YET LIFE GOES ON, size Crown 8vo [Crown Octavo]., to make approximately 320 pp. Inclusive of 6 pp. Prelims [preliminary pages] and 4 half titles to parts. Composing 11 PT [point]. Baskerville 20 x 34 1/2  ems overall, poetry 10 pt [point], Footnotes 8 pt [point]:-

@ Per 32 pp                                                  £ 5.13.6. [*4 9 -6*]

[*Goodbye 1938*]

Imposing for machine - @ Per 32 pp                    15.9.

Machining from type 320 pp. on paper supplied to printed in size 40 x 30:-

1200 copies                                                  £18.12.6.

15000 “                                                           20.5.0.

BOOK JACKET in similar style to “Mills End” Printed front, spine and front flap in one colour on tinted Imitation art paper:-

1250 copies                                                  £3.5.0.

1500 “                                                             3.14.0.

Blocks – extra

The Composition for this title will not be charged before the machining is complete.

BINDING: Crown 8vo [Crown Octavo] volume, 320 pp, sewn 16’s, 2 tapes, white ends, cut edges, bound in plain Blue cloth as specimen case here with 16 oz. Strawboards, blocked one run of ink on spine. Brasses of Stereos – extra:-

100 copies @ per 100                                 £2.19.6.

250 “ “ “ “                                                        2.12.0.

500 “ ” ” ”                                                        2.8.0.

1000 “ “ “                                                        2.6.6.

N.B. Cloth is offered subject to intermediate sale.

 

Yours faithfully | The Garden City Press LTD. | L.S [signature]

 

This estimate is given subject to the Standard Conditions of the Printing Trade s appearing on the back hereof.

 

 

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Source: MS 2750/2/2/8

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Letter from The Garden City Press Ltd. to The Hogarth Press (01/05/1940) [2]

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Typescript letter initialled by L.S [Unidentified signature]