Archives of The Hogarth Press 1917-1955

Hogarth Press.

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Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969

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Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia Woolf, was a unique thinker and theorist in his own right--sophisticated, principled, and humane. His legacy is inextricably tied with the Bloomsbury Set, one of the most influential literary groups of the 20th century, and with Hogarth Press, which he co-founded with his wife. From the description of Leonard Woolf letter to Wigram, 1935 June 10. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52221264 Leonard Sidney Woolf (1...

The Hogarth Press

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In 1917 Leonard and Virginia Woolf published a thirty-one page booklet entitled Two Stories, printed on a handpress in their dining room at Hogarth House in Richmond, Surrey. It was to be the first of the Hogarth Press publications, at first sold informally amongst their friends and later by subscription. Between 1917 and 1932 the Woolfs handprinted thirty-four books, including T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land . During this period the Press functioned as part hobby and part cottage indus...