[Vwoolf] How did VW and LW send corrections to the printers?

Mon Mar 31 11:42:23 EDT 2025

Dear Nicola,

Brilliant! I should have thought of looking there, but didn't. Your 
examples tend to confirm my sense that corrections would have been sent 
in exactly this way, in the form of a letter spelling out what the 
compositor would need to change on the page.

A thousand thanks.

Edward

On 3/31/2025 11:28 AM, Nicola Wilson wrote:
> Dear Edward, You can search the HP's correspondence to R. & R. Clark 
> in MAPP (use R. & R. Clark as search term) - here are some examples 
> I've just found in browsing: Letter from The Hogarth Press to R. & R. 
> Clark (13/12/1929) | Modernist
> ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart
> This Message Is From an External Sender
> This message came from outside your organization.
> ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd
> Dear Edward,
>
> You can search the HP's correspondence to R. & R. Clark in MAPP (use 
> R. & R. Clark as search term) - here are some examples I've just found 
> in browsing:
>
> Letter from The Hogarth Press to R. & R. Clark (13/12/1929) | 
> Modernist Archives Publishing Project 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.modernistarchives.com_correspondence_letter-2Dfrom-2Dthe-2Dhogarth-2Dpress-2Dto-2Dr-2Dr-2Dclark-2D13121929&d=DwMF-g&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=3tVqSl38Z-koovGAhB9GchGzHDzcgaCI7UKgOD56X4Q&m=enKVC4PoBekf6IWGoBkm8cFY2ESn8eNTb6D29xqGQiWlbyOBu8_IY8qelQ5mxA0a&s=kplEl5jRHSB0ELIyKXUpGJzakNcYJVwn0Y3lRquckkE&e= >
>
> Letter from The Hogarth Press to R & R Clark Ltd (23/03/1928) | 
> Modernist Archives Publishing Project 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.modernistarchives.com_correspondence_letter-2Dfrom-2Dthe-2Dhogarth-2Dpress-2Dto-2Dr-2Dr-2Dclark-2Dltd-2D23031928&d=DwMF-g&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=3tVqSl38Z-koovGAhB9GchGzHDzcgaCI7UKgOD56X4Q&m=enKVC4PoBekf6IWGoBkm8cFY2ESn8eNTb6D29xqGQiWlbyOBu8_IY8qelQ5mxA0a&s=3IB6g7bEsBDeM8DjTua8hfS-YtFDo-8KfRRz4f6eS8U&e= >
>
>  *
>     These are only re minor alterations to title pages but hope you
>     can find more...
>
> Ab
> Nicola
>
> Dr Nicola Wilson
> Associate Professor in Book and Publishing Studies
> English Literature,School of Humanities,**Edith Morley, Whiteknights, 
> PO Box 218, Reading, RG6 6AA
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> Co-director of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project 
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> Please note I work 0.8 FTE. My working days are Monday-Thursday 
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> New book: /Recommended! The influencers who changed how we read 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__research.reading.ac.uk_thebooksociety_book-2Dsociety-2Dchoices_judges_&d=DwMF-g&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=3tVqSl38Z-koovGAhB9GchGzHDzcgaCI7UKgOD56X4Q&m=enKVC4PoBekf6IWGoBkm8cFY2ESn8eNTb6D29xqGQiWlbyOBu8_IY8qelQ5mxA0a&s=M73vjPytJbUl9BmW-FLGMMcjfOxD-X8SfjVVssp9Sfw&e= > 
> /(2025): Project website The Book Society 1929-69 
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> My most recent publications are: Project MUSE - The British Book 
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> Choices and Transatlantic Connections (jhu.edu) 
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> The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900–2020 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__edinburghuniversitypress.com_book-2Dthe-2Dedinburgh-2Dcompanion-2Dto-2Dwomen-2Din-2Dpublishing-2D1900-2D2020.html&d=DwMF-g&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=3tVqSl38Z-koovGAhB9GchGzHDzcgaCI7UKgOD56X4Q&m=enKVC4PoBekf6IWGoBkm8cFY2ESn8eNTb6D29xqGQiWlbyOBu8_IY8qelQ5mxA0a&s=bN-OLkVNtJUEksrSIzDMhc9CgHL1c7QDJlOzWmcekU8&e= >
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> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Edward 
> Mendelson via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> *Sent:* 31 March 2025 16:12
> *To:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] How did VW and LW send corrections to the printers?
> Probably the answer to this is staring me in the face from inside the
> volumes of Letters, but I haven't seen it, so here is the question:
>
> In what form did the Woolfs send to their printers, R. & R. Clark,
> corrections that they wanted to see in already-printed books (NOT proof
> corrections in books not yet published, but corrections or revisions to
> books already in print)?
>
> I've seen lists of corrections sent to the same printer from another
> publisher, Faber & Faber, during that period. The lists were typically
> in this form:
>
> Page 100, line 10, change _this_ to _that_ [i.e., the affected words
> underlined]
>
> Page 200, line 20, insert comma after _something_
>
> Do we know what the Woolfs did in the same circumstances?
>
> To repeat: I am NOT asking about proof-corrections made before a book
> was published, but about corrections intended for an existing plate or
> for a photo-offset page, as in the correction made in the second
> printing of Mrs Dalloway from "Brooks's" to "White's".
>
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