A BOY AT THE HOGARTH PRESS.
Illustrated by the author. Preface by Sue Gee. Pp. 208(last advertisement), frontispiece, numerous text illustrations; f'cap. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, publisher's device in blind at centre of upper board, bottom fore-corner of upper board a trifle rubbed; ribbon marker; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Slightly Foxed, London, 2008. Edition limited to 2,000 numbered copies. Slightly Foxed Editions No. 4. *In 1928, aged sixteen, 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. 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 #182415
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