If you have always wanted to own a Virginia Woolf work with an original Hogarth Press
Penguin’s Vintage Classics series now includes three Woolf works, including Mrs. Dalloway, with the original Hogarth Press covers designed by her artist sister, Vanessa Bell, in celebration of the 1925 novel’s centenary.
About the Virginia Woolf Gift Classics
Mrs. Dalloway is part of a special three-volume hardback set that also includes A Room of One’s Own (1929) and To the Lighthouse (1927). Each edition features an original cover with gilt-printed boards beneath.
All three book covers in the Virginia Woolf Gift Classics maintain the distinctly hand-rendered shapes and the textural grain of analogue printmaking that the Hogarth Press employed — including the “imperfections” of the originals.
The process and the prices
To create the final replica covers, multiple covers of the originals were scanned and
Because of challenges raised by the original sizes of the spines, “these are not facsimile editions but we have made reference to the first editions in every detail of the design and production, from the typeface used in the typesetting, to the choice of paper, to the colour of the cover boards,” explained Charlotte Knight, editorial director at Vintage Classics.
The volumes are available for £24.42 each on the Penguin UK website. The set of three is currently priced at £54. Delivery is only available to the UK and Europe.
