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A Boy at the Hogarth Press
Adrian Mole meets Bloomsbury Richard Kennedy started work at the Hogarth Press when he was sixteen. He had been a complete failure at Marlborough School, and was fixed up with the job through a family...
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Thrown to the Woolfs
Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press John Lehmann joined the Hogarth Press as a trainee manager in 1931 when it was in the full flush of its first success. Virginia Woolf’s To the...
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The Hogarth Press
The Hogarth Press 1917—1941 The Hogarth Press was established by Leonard Woolf in 1917 as a therapeutic hobby for his wife Virginia Woolf who was recovering from one of her frequent bouts of...
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Leonard & Virginia Woolf – Two Stories
Hogarth Press bibliographic designs Leonard and Viginia Woolf, Two Stories (1917) This was the first publication of the Hogarth Press. It contains the story Three Jews by Leonard Woolf and the essay...
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Woolf’s-head Publishing
The Highlights and Newlights of the Hogarth Press Woolf’s-head Publishing was produced to coincide with the exhibition of Hogarth Press publications which ran from February to April 2009 at the library...
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The Hogarth Press 1917-1987
from hobby to major cultural enterprise The Hogarth Press 1917-1987 was established by Leonard Woolf in 1917 as a therapeutic hobby for his wife Virginia Woolf who was recovering from one of her...
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Hogarth Press – Book Jackets
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs 1917. Leonard & Virginia Woolf, Two Stories 1918. Katherine Mansfield, Prelude 1918. T.S. Eliot, Poems 1918. Virginia Woolf, Kew...
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Katherine Mansfield – Prelude
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (1918) This was the second publication of the Hogarth Press. It was a re-write of her long short story The Aloe which she...
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T.S.Eliot – Poems
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs T.S. Eliot, Poems (1918) This was the third publication of the Hogarth Press. It includes the poems ‘The Hippopotamus’, ‘Le spectateur’, ‘Mélange...
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Virginia Woolf – Kew Gardens
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens (1919) This publication contained only ten pages of text, with illustrations by Vanessa Bell. “In 1918 we printed two...
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Leonard Woolf – Stories of the East
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs Leonard Woolf, Stories of the East (1919) This publication contained three short stories – ‘Pearls and Swine’, ‘A Tale Told by Midnight’, and ‘The Two...
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Roger Fry – Twelve Original Woodcuts
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs 150 copies were printed. Squarish octavo, unpaginated, title page + 12 original woodcuts, each printed on a separate sheet. A copy of the third...
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Fyodor Dostoyevski – Stavrogin’s Confession
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs Fyodor Dostoyevski, Stavrogin’s Confession, (1922) This unpublished material from The Possessed was translated by S.S.Koteliansky with Virginia...
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Virginia Woolf – Jacob’s Room
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room (1922) Cover design by Vanessa Bell This was the first of Virginia Woolf’s novels to be self-published. She took the...
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T.S.Eliot – The Waste Land
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1923) This was published three times in America before it appeared under the Hogarth Press imprint. First it had been...
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Virginia Woolf – Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs Virginia Woolf, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1924) Cover design by Vanessa Bell. The Hogarth Essays, First Series, No.1. First impression of 1,000...
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Leonard Woolf – Fear and Politics
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs Leonard Woolf, Fear and Politics (1925) Cover design by Vanessa Bell This is number 7 in the first series of Hogarth Essays, which began in 1924. It...
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Virginia Woolf – The Common Reader 1
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader (1925) Cover design by Vanessa Bell. This was Virginia Woolf’s first major collection of critical essays. After a...
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Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. This novel appeared only a few weeks after the publication of The Common...
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F.L.Lucas – Tragedy
Hogarth Press first edition book jacket designs F.L. Lucas,Tragedy in Relation to Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’ (1927) The Hogarth Lectures on Literature, First Series, No. 2. F.L. (Peter) Lucas was a former...
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