The Hogarth Press was founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond, in whose dining room the books were at first hand printed. From being a hobby, it grew during the inter-war years to being a business, with the books being printed by commercial printers. In 1938 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.

As well as publishing the works of the members of the Bloomsbury group, the Hogarth Press was at the forefront of publishing works on Psychoanalysis and translations of foreign, especially Russian, works.

Notable title history

• The Waste Land (1924) - First UK book edition.
• In a Province (1934) - First book by Laurens van der Post.

Reference

• J. Howard Woolmer. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. With a Short History of the Press by Mary E. Gaither. Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986, 250 p.: ISBN 0913506176 (compare Hogarth Press Publications, 1917-1946 at Duke University Library that uses the numbering of the Woolmer publication)

George Spater, A marriage of true minds: An intimate portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf (A Harvest/HBJ book) (Paperback ISBN: 0156572990)

External links

• "Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press, and the detective novel" (PDF), essay by Diane F. Gillespie in the South Carolina Review, issue 35.2, 2003.

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