A BOY AT THE HOGARTH PRESS.
Illustrated by the author. With an Introduction by Bevis Hillier. Pp. xii+86, frontispiece, text illustrations (some double page), plus one large folding illustrated sheet printed in red & black tipped-in at end; cr. 4to; brown linen boards, blocked in black and lettered in gilt; top edges yellow; dust wrapper, edges lightly silverfished and chipped; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, above the earlier bookplate of E. S. Sayers; Heinemann, London, 1972. First trade edition. *At the age of sixteen, in 1928, Richard Kennedy became office boy and general factotum at the Hogarth Press, which was in Leonard and Virginia Woolf's house in Bloomsbury. At the back of the basement, Virginia Woolf wrote her novels; in the middle, these were set up in type and printed; in the front, the booksellers came and collected the finished books. Richard Kennedy was fired from the Press in 1929, after he had ordered the wrong size paper for the Uniform Edition of Virginia Woolf's works. Item #164759
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