By the time of Virginia's suicide in 1941, the Press had published 400 books. Every book is outstanding and many are milestones. I am not convinced that the thing would not be possible. Secondly, one would have to start it, as we did, as a very part-time occupation, making one's living in other ways. Thirdly, one would have to refuse to publish anything unless one thought it worth publishing or the author worth publishing.
Most small publishers perish by trying to become too big too quickly.
Too many publishers allow their overheads to dictate the size of their business and the kind of books they publish. My theory was that the main object of a publisher should be to keep his overhead as near zero as possible, and, if he did that, he could forget about them and publish only what he wanted to publish. I still think that this had a good deal to do with the survival of The Hogarth Press. Copyright 1996-2000 Website Credits .