Jacob's room
Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf (Publisher), Vanessa Bell (Bookjacket designer), R. & R. Clark (Firm) (Printer), Hogarth Press (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 1922
Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Hogarth House, Richmond, 1922
Experimental fiction
290 pages + 14 pages press opinions ; 20 cm
19736994
"Jacob's Room was an important milepost for the press ... It was Woolf's longest book published to date, it was the first novel, and it was one of the first books to be printed by R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh, thus initiating a long and fruitful association between publisher and printer ... Most important, [it] marked Virginia's complete break from Duckworth into the freedom of self-editing and self-publishing"--J.H. Willis, Leonard and Virginia Woolf as publishers: The Hogarth Press, 1917-41. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, page 60
Includes 14 pages at end containing "press opinions" of other books by Virginia Woolf, all but one published by Duckworth & Co. (pages 1-9); and a list of recent publications by The Hogarth Press (pages 10-14)
Issued in crocus-yellow cloth boards; white paper spine label with title printed in black; illustrated cream dust jacket printed in cinnamon and black designed by the author's sister, Vanessa Bell, featuring a bowl of flowers
Price: 7/6; see dust jacket