Other subject files
Scope and Contents
Mostly research notes covering subjects on which John Dreyfus worked during a long period or for more than one publication. These are as follows: Box 51 = William Morris Boxes 52-53 (and loose volume) = T. J. Cobden-Sanderson Boxes 54-55 = Emery Walker Box 56 = Edward Johnston, Harry Kessler, and the Cranach Press Box 57 = Edward Johnston Box 58 = Eric Gill Boxes 59-60 = Jan Van Krimpen Box 61 = Gerard Meynell and the Westminster Press Box 62 = Robbert Gibbings and the Golden Cockerell Press, including a glass negative photograph of Gibbings (with another negative showing Bruce Rogers, Emery Walker, and Wilfred Merton) Box 63 = Frederic Warde, Beatrice Warde, Charles Malin Box 64 = John Baskerville Box 65 = William Starling Burgess and the design of Times Roman Box 66 = John Baskerville, Giovanni Mardersteig, Bruce Rogers Box 67 = Bruce Rogers Boxes 68, 69 = the history of spectacles Box 70 = D. B. Updike; the Curwen Press; Henry Lewis Bullen; International Typographic Council, Paris, France May 1926 (an album of original documents); Ashendene Press Subiaco type; Porter Garnett; Hebrew typography; documents about attempts to obtain international protection for typeface designs through new legislation; F. W. Goudy; miscellaneous subjects (one folder) Boxes 71-72 = 'British and European printing history and printed ephemera' and 'American printing history and printed ephemera' (Dreyfus's labels); with other printed matter on various subjects including L. W. Wallis, Type design developments 1970-1985 (typescript in a plastic comb binding) Boxes 73-75 = small loose-leaf notebooks containing speaking notes for lectures; but some appear to be general research notes
Creator
- From the Fonds: Dreyfus, John, 1918-2002 (typographer and printer) (Person)
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Extent
25 archive box(es) (25 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941 (printer) (Person)
- Rogers, Albert Bruce, 1870-1957 (book designer) (Person)
- Kessler, Harry Graf, 1868-1937 (Graf von Kessler, activist and proprietor of the Cranach Press) (Person)
- Morris, William, 1834-1896 (poet, artist and socialist) (Person)
- Sanderson, Thomas James Cobden-, 1840-1922 (bookbinder printer) (Person)
- Walker, Sir Emery, 1851-1933 (Knight, engraver, photographer and printer) (Person)
- Gibbings, Robert John, 1889-1958 (author and illustrator) (Person)
- Bullen, Henry Lewis, 1857-1938 (Librarian of the American Type Founders company) (Person)
- Johnston, Edward, 1872-1944 (calligrapher and designer) (Person)
- Strouse, Norman H., 1906-1993 (advertising executive and book collector) (Person)
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