Letter from the Garden City Press Ltd to the Hogarth Press (23/12/1940)

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[[MS 2750/545/21]]

 

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

 

 

Estimate No. LS/VB 
Please state number when ordering. Ho/26149amTerms: Usual

 

The Hogarth Press, 
LETCHWORTH.

 

23rd December 1940

 

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

 

BINDING: "VILLAGE IN THE JUNGLE", size Crown 8vo [Crown Octavo]., 312 pp, sewn 16's, 2 tapes, white ends, cut edges, rounded and backed, bound in Green Art Cambric supplied to Binder, 20 oz. boards, blocked in gold leaf on spine only; jacketted:-

 

150 copies @ Per 100                          £ 2.10. 0.

 

Yours faithfully, | THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD. | LS[?] [handwritten initials]

 

 

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

 

 

 

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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.

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Source: MS 2750/545/21

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Letter from the Garden City Press Ltd to the Hogarth Press (23/12/1940)

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

The Garden City Press outlines details for the binding of 150 copies of The Village in the Jungle and the cost associated.

Typescript letter initialled by L. S [unidentified signature]