Letter from The Garden City Press to The Hogarth Press with enclosed specimen pages (28/04/1941)

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[pre-printed letterhead] London Office 19-19a Cursitor St EC4 THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD LETTERPRESS PRINTERS BOOKBINDERS STATIONERS LETCHWORTH : HERTS

 

Estimate No. LS/VB 
Please state number when ordering. Ho/26365 
Terms: Usual                                                              

 

The Hogarth Press, 
LETCHWORTH.

28th April 1941

 

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

 

"BETWEEN THE ACTS", Crown 8vo., to make approximately 256 pp. inclusive of 6 pp, Prelims. Composing 12/13 pt. Caslon O.F. 18x32 ems overall as our specimen page herewith:-

            @Per 32 pp. £5.18.6.

            Imposing for Machine - @ Per 32 pp.      .17.2.

Ditto 12/13 pt. Baskerville 19x32 ems overall, as alternative specimen page:-

            @Per 32 pp. £5.18.6.

            Imposing for Machine - @ Per 32 pp.      -.17.2.

Machining from type 256 pp. on paper supplied to Printer in size 60x40:-

            5,000 copies £29.0.0.

BOOK JACKET on similar lines to "Three Guineas" printed on spine and front from Line blocks and blurb on one flap, in 2 colours and supplying Abbey Mills Antique Laid paper:-

            5,000 copies £12.10.0.

Blocks extra.

Price quoted subject to material being available.

BINDING: Cr[ow]n 8vo., 256 pp, sewn 16's, 2 tapes, white ends, edges cut, rounded and backed, bound in Dominion Vellum or its equivalent @10 1/2d. per yard, 20 oz. boards, blocked in gold foil on spine only; jacketted. Brasses extra:-

            250 copies @ Per 100                       £2.17.6.

            500     "           "           "           "          £2.13.0.

         1000     "           "           "           "           £2.11.0.

         3000     "           "           "           "           £2.10.0.

 

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

 

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

 

 

 

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[This page has not been transcribed but contains a list of 13 standard terms and conditions as issued by the British Federation of Master Printers]

 

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BETWEEN THE ACTS

 

Cr. 8vo [Crown Octavo]., 256pp., including 6pp. prelims. [preliminaries]

set in 12-13 Caslon Old Face, Mono 128

Measure, 18 ems pica

Depth of page, 28 lines text

Specimen No. 6658A submitted on April 28th, 1941, to Messrs HOGARTH PRESS

 

THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD., LETCHWORTH

 

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[This image has not been transcribed but contains printed specimen pages of Between the Acts pages 23-23]

 

 

 

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Reproduced with permission from the copyright holders, 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 2750/550/1/1

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Letter from The Garden City Press to The Hogarth Press with enclosed specimen pages (28/04/1941)

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

Archival Folder:

The Garden City Press sends the price for printing Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts,  with all features at a price of 2.10.0. The document also contains the Garden City Press' standard conditions, as well as a condensed summary of printing information and an excerpt. Letter includes specimen pages.

Typescript letter initialled L.S