Letter from The Garden City Press Ltd to the Hogarth Press (14/01/1943)

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[[MS 2750/555/3/3]]

 

[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/BA Ho/1970.

Terms: Usual.

 

The Hogarth Press, 
Letchworth, 
Herts.

 

[*Yes to Baker*]

 

 

14th January 1943.

 

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

 

"The Death of the Moth" size Demy 8vo [Octavo] 160 pp, Imposing standing [*type*], making necessary alterations to Prelims and machining 5,000 copies from type on paper supplied to Printer in size 35 x 45.

 

                        5,000 copies                                     £48.15.0d.

 

 

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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.,| L.S [signature]

 

 

[*5000 @8d = £166*] 
[*(including royalty)*] 
[*No other expenses except delivery.*] 
[*10% of this to *1 V.W. estate*]

 

 

* Endnotes

 

1. Virginia Woolf

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Letter from The Garden City Press Ltd to the Hogarth Press (14/01/1943)

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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