Who started "The Hogarth Press", a hobby of printing rather than publishing?

"The Hogarth Press", was a British publishing house founded in 1917 by Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond (then in Surrey and now in London), in which they began hand-printing books. It was devised largely as a hobby for its owners, with whose literary views it was closely identified. The small press born in the dining room of the Woolf's house concerned more with standards than with profit, attracted a reputation for quality that brought the imprint renown. Virginia needed something to do in the afternoons, to distract and rescue her from sometimes harmfully intense absorption in her novels. And she hoped their hobby would draw her husband Leonard Woolf away from his political involvement in the Fabian Society.

Their hobby quickly became a full-fledged publishing company - one of the most distinguished and important publishers of the century. It became an allied company of Chatto and Windus in 1946. By that time, if pamphlets and little series of essays are included, 527 titles had appeared. Apart from writers either famous or later to become so, such as T.S.Eliot, Robert Graves, Katherine Mansfield, C. Day Lewis and Virginia Woolf herself, issues such as disarmament, the League of Nations, educational reform and racial prejudice were tackled.

"The Hogarth Press", together with "Chatto & Windus", maintained its identity even though it is now a part of the "Random House", an American book publishing group.