The Hogarth Letters

First collected edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of largely cream jacket and spine, very slight lean, previous owner's inscription to mid ffep, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 349pp. A selection of correspondence between the Bloomsbury Group and their friends and enemies. The Hogarth Press was founded as an independent company in 1917 by authors Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in west London, in which they began hand printing books as a hobby during the inter war period. In 1938 Virginia Woolf relinquished her interest in the business and it was then run as a partnership by Leonard Woolf and John Lehmann until 1946, when it became an associate company of Chatto & Windus. Quite a scarce book.