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Papers of John Dreyfus
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Papers of John Dreyfus |
| Reference |
GBR/0012/MS Add.9815 |
| Creator |
Dreyfus, John |
| Covering Dates |
1935-2002 |
| Extent and Medium |
77 boxes |
| Repository |
Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives |
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| Content and context |
At Cambridge, John Dreyfus (1918-2002) was Assistant University Printer (1949-1956) and Typographical Adviser to the University Press (until 1982). Among other posts he held were that of Typographical Adviser to the Monotype Corporation (1955-1982, following Stanley Morison), and President of the Association Typographique Internationale (1968-1973). But most of the papers in this collection record his correspondence, publications, and lectures as an independent scholar and writer on typography and printing history. |
Access and Use
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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Papers of John Dreyfus, MS Add.9815 |
| Further information |
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John Dreyfus, Into print (British Library 1994) is a collection of his shorter publications with a "handlist of the writings of John Dreyfus", pp. 311-25.
Arranged by J. F. Coakley, 2010. The arrangement into series A-E is expected to be permanent, but box numbers are temporary. Future cataloguing will assign item numbers.
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| Index Terms |
| Dreyfus, John (1918-2002) typographer printer |
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A
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Files on individual people. 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, Lewis and Dorothy Allen, Fred Anthoensen, Tony Appleton, Edward Ardizzone, Christian Axel-Milsson, Michael Ayrton, other correspondents (A: Dorothy Abbe, Dorsey Alexander, Mark Argetsinger), Iain Bain, Henry R. Ball, Tom Balston, T. H. Bamford, Arnold Bank, William P. Barlow, Jr., Charles Batey, Fernand Baudin, Edward Bawden, Terry Belanger, Paul A. Bennett, Nicolas Bentley, Sanford and Helen Berger, W. Turner Berry, Theodore Besterman, Ralph Beyer. Box 2 = Benedictines of Stanbrook, Harold Berliner, Charles A. Bigelow, Carol Blinn. Box 3 = Joseph Blumenthal, Elizabeth Bowen, Roger Black, Richard Boulind, Simon Brett, Gunnlaugur S. E. Briem, Ronald C. H. Briggs, Robert Bringhurst, Henri-Paul Bronsard, other correspondents (B: Colin Banks, Nicolas Barker, Mark Batty, Gotthard de Beauclair, John R. Biggs, Alan R. Birch, Chris Brand), Max Caflisch, Michael Caine, Margaret Calvert, Harry Carter, Matthew Carter. Box 4 = Will Carter, Roderick Cave, Caxton Club,John F. Chalmers, David Chambers, Heather Child, Jerry Cinammon, Bert Clark, Kenneth Clark, T. M. Cleland, Nest Cleverdon, Sydney Cockerell, Colin Cohen, Herman Cohen, P. J. Conkwright, D. Stephen Corey, John M. Crawford, Jr., Cruickshank, Brooke Crutchley, Carl Dair. Boxes 5, 6 = John De Pol. Box 7 = Bram De Does, Dick Dooijes, John Downer, Paul Hayden Duensing, Joe Dunlap, other correspondents (D: Grant Dahlstrom, William Dailey, Dawson's Book Shop), Colin Eccleshare, Jim Ede, Alvin Eisenman, Richard Ellis, Enschede Foundry, David Esselmont, Roger Excoffon, Alfred Fairbank, Valter Falk, Alan Fern. Box 8 = Desmond Flower, Peter Forster, Peter Foster, Erik Ellegaard Fredericksen, Leslie French, Elizabeth Friedlander, George T. Friend, Adrian Frutiger, Andras Furesz, William Gardner, Eleanor M. Garvey, Tirzah Garwood, Morris Gelfand, David Gentleman, Gerald Giampa, Stella Gibbons, Raymond Gid, Jonathan Gili, Evan R. Gill, Pat Gilmour. Box 9 = David Godine, Golgonooza Letter Foundry and Press, Chandler B. Grannis, Leonard A. Gray, Nicolete Gray, Geoff Green, Fiona Greenwood, Gregynog Press, Mary Groom, Phil Grushkin, Andre Gürtler, other correspondents (G: Netty Gable, Richard Garnett, Flora Ginn). Christopher Haanes, Robin Halwas, Hamish Hamilton,Victor Hammer, Kenneth Hardacre, Basil Harley, Robert Harling, James D. Hart, Sem Hartz, Stephen Harvard, Michael Harvey, Joan Hassall. Box 10 = William G. Haynes, Jr., John Hayward, Charles Heiskell, Lance Hidy, Jonathan A. Hill, Anthony R. A. Hobson, Eileen Hogan, Paul Hogarth, Timothy Holloway, James Houle, Ellic Howe, Justin Howes, Andrew Hoyem, E. Harold Hugo, Peter C. G. Isaac, Jay Jackson, Antoinette Jacobson, André Jammes, Henri Jonquieres, A. F. Johnson, F. M. Johnson, Jerry Kelly. Box 11 = Norman Kelvin, Geoffrey Keynes, David Kindersley, Sandra Kirshenbaum, Konglomerati Press. Box 12 = Eiichi Kono, Fritz Kredel, Huib van Krimpen, John Lane, Simon Lawrence, Abe Lerner, Robert L. Leslie, Charles E. Letocha. Box 13 = Letraset Ltd, John Lewis, Roger Levenson, Walter Lewis, Erik Lindegren, J. Ben Lieberman, Will Lockwood, Matthieu Lommen, other correspondents (L: Jean Lardner, Karen Lemonte, Christine Levin), George Macy, George Mackley, F. Ronald Mansbridge, Florence March, Giovanni Mardersteig, Saul and Lillian Marks, Jenni Matz, Marcus McCorison, Michael McCurdy. Box 14 = Nicolas McDowall, David McFall, Ruari McLean, Claude Mediavilla, H. E. Meggen, José Mendoza y Almeida, Michael Messenger, Francis Meynell, R. Hunter Middleton, John Miles, Liam Miller, Michael Mitchell, Charles Monell, James Mooney, James Moran, Henry Morris, Ian Mortimer, James Mosley, Percy Muir. Box 15 = Stanley Morison. Box 16 = Museums Action Movement, John Nash, Ray Nash, Paul Needham, Stan Nelson, Gerrit Noordzij, C. Volmer Nordlunde, Edward Northfield, Robert Norton, John O'Connor, Michel Olyff, G. Willem Ovink, Robert Orbach, Arthur S. Osley. Box 17 = David Pankow, F. E. Pardoe, David Peace, Charles Peignot, John Peters, William S. Peterson, Howard Phipps, Orovida Pissarro, Rene Ponot, Jean-François Porchez, other correspondents (P: John F. Peckham, Yves Perrousseaux, George D. Painter). Box 18 = Aurel Ramat, John Randle, Simon Rendall, François Richaudeau, Vivian Ridler, Gillian Riley. Box 19 = Ward Ritchie and Gloria Stuart, Bernard Roberts, Barbara Roisman-Cooper, Carl Purlington Rollins, Ed Rondthaler, Celia Rooke, S. H. De Roos, Anthony Rota, Victor Rothschild, Priscilla Roworth, Lessing J Rosewald, Rudolph Ruzicka, John Ryder, Charles Ryskamp. Box 20 = Christopher Sandford, Stephen O. Saxe, Ellen Schaffer, Karen Schell, Stuart B. and Caroline Schimmel, Hans P. Schmoller, Ronald Searle, Brocard Sewell, Walter Shewring, Nicolas O. Simon, Rollo Silver, Oliver Simon, Donald Sinden, Christopher Skelton, Clare Skelton, John Skelton, C. Philip Smith, Richard Shirley Smith, Roger Smith, Society of Scribes Ltd (New York), Society of Scribes and Illuminators. Box 21 = Albert Sperisen, John Sparrow, Herbert Spencer, Paul Standard, Jack Werner Stauffacher, Gary L. Steigerwald, Jonathan Stephenson, Paul Stiff, Roderick Stinehour, Reynolds Stone, Norman H. Strouse, other correspondents (S: Georg Kurt Schauer, Victor Scholderer, David Siegel, Virginia Smith, Jan Solpera, Martin and Penny Specter), Alberto Tallone. Box 22 = Michael Tarachow, John C. Tarr, W. Thomas Taylor, Jan Tschichold, Marianne Tidcombe, Wolfgang Tiessen, Erwin Tomash, Walter Tracy, John Trevitt, Archie Turnbull, Michael Twyman, Louis Untermeyer. Box 23 = Gerard Unger, Jan van Krimpen, Jovica Veljovic, Isa de la Fontaine Verwey, Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer. Box 24 = Maximilien Vox, Lawrence W. Wallis, James Wardrop, Owen Watson, Julian Waters, David and Elizabeth Way, Irene Wellington, Michael Warre, James M. Wells, Graham and Nina Williams, Hugh Williamson, Adrian Wilson, Joyce Wilson, Stanley and Peggy Winkelman, David Wishart. Box 25 = B. Winterton, Tim Wilkinson, Alan Wofsy, H. K. Wolfenden, Berthold Wolpe, Merald E. Wrolstad, Lili Wronker, Leo Wyatt, Yale University Press, Yolla Bolly Press, Doyald Young, Edward Young, John Y. Yumulla, Bror Zachrisson, Carl Zahn, Zamorano Club (Los Angeles), Martin Zander. Box 26 = Hermann Zapf, Jake Zeitlin, unidentified correspondents.
26 boxes. |
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Files arising from publications, lectures and conferences. Arranged chronologically. Some presently undated items are at the end of the sequence in box 42. Some folders are identified by the number of the publication in the 'Handlist of the writings of John Dreyfus'. Some files for publications include research notes: the more significant of these are mentioned in the list below. The contents of this series are sorted as follows:. Box 27 = 1949-1972; includes research material for 'Beatrice Warde: first lady of typography' (1970) and for an exhibition on Edward Johnston (1972). Box 28 = 1973-1980; includes research material on Thomas Bensley, and papers relating to Dreyfus's Sandars Lectures 1979-80. Box 29 = 1980-1981; includes papers relating to the History of the Nonesuch Press. Box 30 = 1981; includes further papers relating to the History of the Nonesuch Press. Box 31 = 1981; contains the typescript of the History of the Nonesuch Press. Box 32 = 1981-1982; includes papers on 'an abandoned project for a specimen book of types, borders & decorative material at the Curwen & John Roberts presses'; and research material for Aspects of French eighteenth-century typography (1982). Box 33 = 1983-1985; includes printed ephemera produced for the 1984 meeting of the American Typecasting Fellowship, and research material for 'The Curwen Press collection in Cambridge University Library' (1985). Box 34 = 1985; includes an autograph album presented to Dreyfus at the conference of ATypI . Box 35 = 1985-1988; includes 'source material for Columbia [Rare Book School] lectures'; research material on Dutch typographers Dooijes, Hartz, Brand, De Does, Unger; and notes on digital typography. Box 36 = 1990; includes research material for 'Recollections of Agnes Miller Parker' and on the Golden Cockerel Four Gospels for A typographical masterpiece. Box 37 = 1990-1991; includes research notes for A Londoner's view of three Los Angeles printer friends and their work. Box 38 = 1992; includes research notes for 'Dennis Cohen and the Cresset Press'. Box 39 = 1993; includes research notes for 'the Vine Press', and on Desmond Chute for Eric Gill for Father Desmond. Box 40 = 1994-1996; includes research notes on Draeger Frères, and papers relating to Dreyfus's 1996 Gutenberg Prize. Box 41 = 1997-2002; includes also a file of papers arising from anonymous reviews in the Times Literary Supplement . Box 42 = presently undated items, including an album of photographs from a conference ca. 1980?.
16 boxes. |
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Files relating to consultancies and societies. The contents of this series are as follows:. Box 43 = Limited Editions Club (to which Dreyfus was European consultant 1956-1977), including files on books designed by Dreyfus. Box 44 = Limited Editions Club, further similar files. Box 45 = Limited Editions Club, further similar files; with part of a transcript of an interview with Mrs. George Macy (1972). Box 46 = Double Crown Club, including menus and printed ephemera, some annotated by Dreyfus, with some correspondence between him and officers of the Club. Box 47 = Double Crown Club, further menus and ephemera; The Times. Box 48 = The Monotype Corporation (to which Dreyfus was Typographical Advisor 1955-1982). Box 49 = Typogabor; Wynkyn de Worde Society; Society of Printers (Boston); Rencontres internationales de Lure. Box 50 = Cambridge University Press (to which Dreyfus was Typographical Adviser 1956-1982) ; Association Typographique Internationale (of which Dreyfus was president 1968-1978).
8 boxes. |
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Other subject files. 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 = 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.
25 boxes. |
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Biographical material. Box 76 = wallet of miscellaneous photographs; folder containing miscellaneous documents, mostly clippings and tear-sheets, relating to Dreyfus and his family.
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Oversize papers. 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 separate sheet by Johnston; in a red cloth box); 2 colour printed posters.
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