Records of the Hogarth Press

The collection contains 627 book files 1922-1955, each containing items such as readers' reports, editorial and rights correspondence, and publicity material. Many of the earlier files contain the publisher's summary of production details and notes about expenses. In addition, there are four notebooks owned by Leonard Woolf, containing handwritten author accounts 1926-1928, balance sheets 1926-1934, monthly sales 1922-1939, profit and loss figures 1927-1937, profit and loss summaries 1917-1939, notes on production and publicity costs 1928-1929, and orders 1920-1922. There are also ledgers containing sales, cash and author statements c. 1926-1948.
Post-war material from the Hogarth Press is contained in the Archive of Chatto & Windus.

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