Wyatt, Leo, 1909-1981 (designer, engraver, printmaker and teacher)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1909 - 1981
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Series
Files on individual people
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9815/A
Scope and Contents
John Dreyfus's files consisting principally of correspondence, but also clippings, examples of printing (if the person was a printer or engraver), compositions by the person, and in some cases Dreyfus's research notes and compositions relating to the person. Some files have the name of a press or other corporate body rather than a person. The contents of this series are as follows: Box 1 = Abacus Typographers, Olive F. Abbott, George Abrams, Elmer Adler, Alexander Alexieff, Greer Allen,...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Papers of John Dreyfus
Sub-Series
Oversize papers
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9815/F
Scope and Contents
Box 77 = 4 Double Crown Club menus; diploma for Dreyfus's Gutenberg Prize; certificate of membership in the Type Directors Club; 11 engravings by Leo Wyatt (in a portfolio); pages from an edition of Shakespeare's sonnets printed by Ian Mortimer; photograph of Charles Peignot at Cambridge, 1953; copies of drawings for Bembo italic; drawing of Greek and Roman capital letters by Jan van Krimpen; Edward Johnston's Address for W. R. Lethaby (original address on vellum, with a manuscript note on a...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Papers of John Dreyfus