Letter from Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd, The Country Press to The Hogarth Press (07/07/1941)

 

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[[MS 2750/572/41]]

 

[pre-printed letterhead] lund humphries estimate  Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd . The County Press Bradford  Printers Publishers Binders

 

135/78 
RP/LG.

 

The Hogarth Press, 
Pixmore Avenue, 
LETCHWORTH, 
Herts.

 

August 7th, 1941.

 

SPECIFICATION - Reprints of Books "To the Lighthouse" consisting of 320 pages, printed by Replika in black ink.

 

BINDING       Delivered in flat sheets.

 

SIZE               6 7/8" x 4 1/2 upright.

 

MATERIAL    As sample previously submitted.

 

QUANTITY    1,500              £86. 0. 0.

 

[*Miss Hepworth*1 Accept this LW*2 [handwritten initials] 13/8*]

 

 

TERMS NETT MONTHLY  CARRIAGE PAID GOODS TO LETCHWORTH.

 

This Estimate is based on the price of materials ruling on the date given above, and is subject to revision. This Estimate is given subject to the Standard Conditions of the Printing Trade as issued by the British Federation of Master Printers (which are overleaf), and such conditions shall be deemed to be embodied in any contract arising out of this estimate and the acceptance thereof, unless otherwise provided,

 

Yours faithfully, | Percy Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd | [illeg. signature]

 

 

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Standard Conditions and Recognised Customs of the Printing Trade as issued by the British Federation of Master Printers [a list of 13 conditions and customs]

 

 

* Endnotes

 

1. Barbara Hepworth 
2. Leonard Woolf

Rights Statement:

Reproduced with permission from the copyright holder Lund Humphries,  courtesy of Penguin Random House UK Archive and Library owner of the Hogarth Press collection at the University of Reading Special Collections.

This item has not been made available with a CC BY-NC-ND licence.

Source: MS 2750/572/41

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Letter from Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd, The Country Press to The Hogarth Press (07/07/1941)

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

Percy Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd include an estimate for reprinting 1,500 copies of To the Lighthouse with specifications for binding, sizing, material, and quantity. Includes marginalia which is addressed to Barbara Hepworth initialed by Leonard Woolf.

Typescript letter unsigned