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Hogarth Press Hogarth Press begun in March 1917 by Leonard Woolf to provide his wife with a therapeutic interest. The name was taken from the Woolf's home at that time in Richmond 'Hogarth House'. The first printing was done on a small hand-press, the Woolfs buying a mechanical press before they undertook the production of works by Katherine Mansfield and T.S. Eliot. Between 1917 and 1946, the Hogarth Press published 525 titles. The press was moved to 52 Tavistock Square in 1924, to 37 Mecklenburgh Square in 1939 and, after the bombing of 1940, to Letchworth. R. Partridge (1920-3), G. Rylands (1924), A. Davidson (1924-7), J.Lehmann (1931-2 and 1938-46) all sought to work with Woolf, but found him a difficult colleague. Chatto and Windus absorbed Hogarth in 1946. You can now see this commemorable machine at the Tower of Sissinghurst Castle. |
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